USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



nor knives, nor plates nor spoons, nor any thing 

 but a pot in which they boil the potatoes, and 

 from which they trundle them out upon a board; 

 there to be peeled by hands, with which soap 

 has never come in contact. If they can but get 

 clean vrater into their pot, and some more water 

 to wash the board with, here they may have a 

 clean meal in spite of those who plunder them 

 under pretence of making them free. 



155. SupPAWN. Tli^s is neither more nor 

 less than porridge ; that is to say, boiling milk, 

 broth, or water, thickened with corn-flour, in the 

 same way that people in the South of England 

 thicken them with wheat-flour, and that people 

 in the North of England thicken them with oat- 

 meal. Put into water, this is a breakfast, or sup- 

 per, or dinner for little children ; put into milk 

 or broth, it is the same for grown people ; and 

 here I should observe, that, the use of corn- 

 meal or flour in this way or in some other, is 

 invariably recommended by physcians, in case of 

 disorders arising from bad digestion. With milk 

 or broth it is a good strong meal, and quite suf- 

 ficient as breakfast or supper for man to work 

 upon. There ought to be for every working man 

 one good meal of meat in a day. If he be at 

 work at a distance from home, and especially in 

 winter time, for supper it is the most con- 

 venient ; and then, he ought to have bread and a 



