USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



is filled again for the cooking of the dinner. 

 Thus we get over two meals of the day without 

 bread; and one of them (for porridge requires 

 none) without beer. The bread is a ceremonious 

 affair, and occupies a great deal of time, and 

 cannot he had at a miniite's warning ; and the 

 beer, owing to the duties on the malt, is really 

 expensive; for a quart of porridge, as good as ever 

 was eaten by man, and forming a good and sub- 

 stantial meal, does not cost a quarter part so 

 much as a quart of even poor small beer. At 

 dinner the men have a pint of beer apiece in this 

 winter time, and they have the like at supper, 

 with as much bread and cheese as they choose 

 to eat, the cheese being, if I can possibly have it 

 so, made from the milk of my own cows, and is 

 what is commonly called skim-cheese ; besides 

 this, the men have three shillings a week each in 

 money ', it costs them about fourpence a week for 

 washing, and the rest they may keep or lay out 

 in clothes. And, this observe, is for the six 

 montlis of the winter. What, then, does that 

 wriggling reptile Bott Smith, of Liverpool, de- 

 serve, for representing me as a niggardly master, 

 while the unfeeling reptile knows that the.e are 

 hundreds of thousands of miserable manufacturers 

 in the North, who would deem it happiness to be 

 able to blow their bodies out with scab-creating 

 oatmeal and water ? Deserve 1 the indignant 



