USES TO ^YHICH [Chap. 



world contains a man who is more constantly 

 blessed with health than I am. In winter, I go 

 to bed at nine, and I rise, if I do not oversleep 

 myself, at four, or between four and five. I have 

 always a clear head ; I am ready to take the pen, 

 or to begin dictating, the moment 1 have lighted 

 the fire, or it has been lighted for me ; and, g:- 

 iierally speaking, I am seldom more than five 

 minutes in bed before I am asleep. Take such 

 stuff as this, and put it into a Secretary of State, 

 or Prime Minister, and think of the effect it 

 would produce ! 



156. Mush. — This is not a word to squall out 

 over a piano-forte ; but, it is a very good word, 

 and a real English word, though Johnson has 

 left it, as he has many other good words, out of 

 his Dictionary. It means this ; you put some 

 water or milk into a pot, and bring it to 

 boil, you then let the flour or meal out of one 

 band gently into the milk or water, keeping 

 stirring with the other, until you have got it into 

 a pretty stiff state, after which, you let it stand 

 ten minutes, or a quarter of an hour, or less, or 

 even only one minute, and then take it out, and 

 put it into a dish or bowl. This sort of half 

 pudding half porridge you eat either hot or cold, 

 with a little salt or without it. It is frequently 

 eaten unaccompanied with any liquid mattery 

 but the genaral way is to have a porringer of 



