USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



will dispose even of these with great ultimate advan - 

 tage. Here^ then, is no flatulent stuff,such as beans, 

 pease, cabbages, and the like, which are nothing 

 without meat, and generally without butter too. 

 Many a meal have I made upon green ears alone ; 

 and many a hundred thousand meals are made 

 every year in the same manner by people in 

 America, who have always heaps of meat at their 

 command. They keep gathering the green ears 

 till the grain is so hard as to resist the thumb- 

 nail ; and then they resort to the various states 

 of the grindings of the corn of the last year. In 

 the culinary process, there are none of those 

 cullings and pickings and choosings and reject- 

 ings and washings and dabblings and old women 

 putting on their spectacles to save the caterpillars 

 from being boiled alive ; there are none of those 

 peelings and washings as in the case of potatoes 

 and turnips, and digging into the sides with the 

 knife for the eyes, the maggots and the worms, 

 and flinging away about half the root, in order 

 to secure the worst part of it, which is in the 

 middle ; none of those squeezings and rnashings 

 and choppings before the worthless mess can be 

 got upon the table; nor are there wanted any 

 of that tribe of boilers, of skillets, and saucepans, 

 and stewpans and kettles, and a whole heap of 

 stuff, which, in a pretty large house, would, if 

 they were all collected together, after being lugged 



