IX.] CORN IS APPLICABLE. 



reader will exclaim ; he deserves to be crushed 

 by the foot of one of these well-fed men, and to 

 have the stinking remains of him flung upon the 

 dirtiest dunghill in the yard. Just in this same 

 manner, on precisely the same diet, drink and 

 all, I live myself, except that, instead of bread 

 and cheese for supper, I have at supper time 

 (exactly six o'clock), a pint of cold skim milk 

 and a bit of bread, which I take in the Yorkshire 

 fashion (which I learned in the army), " bite and 

 sup f that is to say, take a bit of bread in one 

 hand, and the pint of milk, in a mug, in the 

 other, bite off a mouthful of bread, give it a twist 

 or two, and then take a siq) of milk j which is a 

 great deal better than soaking the bread in the 

 milk; because the teeth separate the bread, 

 and cause it to receive, in every part, its due 

 proportion of milk. The men would not change 

 suppers with me if they had their choice. I do, 

 indeed, go home to Kensington once a week ; 

 but there I make no change in my mode of liv- 

 ing, except, perhaps, as to the dinner ; and, then, 

 I take whatever sort of meat I find, never eating 

 any garden stuff at all, except the onions and the 

 herbs in the porridge. Now, is there a man on 

 earth who sits at a table, on an average, so many 

 hours in the day as I do ? I do not believe that 

 there is 5 and I say it, not with pride, but with 

 gratitude, that I do not believe that the whole 



