USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



put them into a pot of hot water, and boil them 

 for about twenty minutes ; then take them out 

 into a dish, put them upon the table, as in the 

 other case, and proceed with the butter and the 

 salt and the biting off from the cobb, as before. 

 Common people, in America, boil them with 

 fat pork ; and do not use any butter at all, the 

 pork having communicated to them a sufficiency 

 of fat. The Israelites were commanded to smear 

 the roasted ears over with oil, their country being 

 a little too ivarm to make a bit of butter stick 

 upon a knife ; for this reason too, in most 

 cases, mv friends the Yankees content them- 

 selves with the fat imbibed from the pork, which, 

 the reader will please to observe, is not potatoe- 

 fed stuff from Waterford, nor blood-and-gar- 

 bage-fed stuff from the neighbourhood of the 

 slaughter-houses in and about the Wen ; but solid 

 as a rock, and sweet as a violet ; a thing which 

 the most delicate might eat with pleasure, if 

 thinly spread upon bread in the place of butter. 

 Now, contemplate for a moment the use, the 

 value, of being furnished thus, not with mere 

 yarden-stvff, at tliis time of the year, when the 

 old crop is gone, and the new crop is not 

 come. These green ears are bread, and when 

 boiled are used as such, nobody ever thinking 

 of bread to eat with meat, or to eat with tea at 

 breakfast, or at night, if they have green ears of 



