IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



piece of cheese or meat to eat at his work in the 

 middle of the day, besides having meat for sup- 

 per. When at home, or near home, porridge 

 uith milk or broth, and corn-flour, is quite suf- 

 ficient for two of the meals. Half a pound of 

 meal ; nay, a quarter of a pound, swelling up 

 as it does, is sufficient for one man for one meal; 

 and the cost of this, at this time, the corn being 

 brought from America, with a heavy duty upon 

 i% is much about one farthing. A half-penny- 

 worth of corn-flour, finely dressed, is quite suf- 

 ficient for two meals a day for a working man, if 

 it be mixed up with milk or good fat broth. I wili 

 here relate, how I now manage in my farm-house, 

 where I have to board eight young men and a boy, 

 besides myself, and, sometimes, a helper or two. 

 Let us begin with the dinner 3 for that is the basis 

 on which we proceed. We have a little cauldron 

 or boiler hung like a brewing copper, in which 

 there is boiled as much of the very best mutton that 

 I can purchase as the whole can eat for dinner ; 

 there being no limit as to quantity, and there 

 being always a piece left to be cold, in case 

 a stranger should drop in. The meat, toge- 

 ther Vv^ith dumplings, are put upon the table 

 every day, or rather upon both tables, just five 

 minutes before twelve, and when the clock strikes, 

 we all go to dinner. When the meat is taken 

 up, the whole of the broth, into which a par; ?1 



