IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



spoon, have been placed upon the table-cloth half 

 an hour before ; this is a warm, a hearty, and a 

 most wholesome breakfast, sufficient for any man, 

 let his work be v/hat it may, and lasts him well 

 where his full meal of good meat is only at four 

 hour's distance. Here are no grimy porridge- 

 pots to be lugged backwards and forwards 

 to a fire place, and hung upon cranes or 

 chains ; and causing the gowns, the aprons, 

 and the petticoats, of the maids to be set fire 

 to, or, at the least, to be blacked over with the 

 pots. This is the cleverest thing of the kind 

 that I ever saw in my life 3 but by no means any 

 invention of mine, I having learnt it from a la- 

 bourer, who was brought up in a dairy country, 

 where they make use of such things to heat their 

 milk in the making of their cheese ; and as there 

 was neither law nor proclamation against it, I 

 took the liberty to apply it to the making of por- 

 ridge, for which purpose I strongly recommend 

 it to all farmers throughout the^ country, and to 

 every body else who has a parcel of men and 

 boys to feed. The water which remains in the 

 cauldron is ready, the moment the tin thing is 

 taken out, for washing up the milk things and 

 for washing the spoons and porringers ; so that 

 here, not only is the breakfast thus begun, con- 

 tinued, and ended, but the whole of the other 

 morning work is done up clean, and the cauldron 



