IX.] CORN IS APPLI CABLE. 



these were two of the finest lambs in the whole 

 lot. One of them (they were both ewes) was the 

 fattest lamb of its age that 1 ever saw in my life^ 

 and after it was about seven weeks old, we ceased 

 to give it milk and it lived entirely upon the 

 i.Tieal. I bought, besides, thirty South-down ewes^ 

 several of these (as many as six or seven) I lost 

 from the same cause that I have mentioned before. 

 The lambs of the remainder I kept at the house, 

 and fed as before described. These South-down 

 lambs were dropped in February, or early in 

 March, and there were about four- and- twenty of 

 them in number. These fatted equally well with 

 the Somerset lambs ; and from about the second 

 week in February to some time in July, we had 

 always one lamb a week to eat and sometimes 

 two. After the grass came in great abundance, 

 the ewes and lambs ran together in the grass, 

 always as fat as they could walk. Thirty-eight 

 lambs is no bad allowance for one family for 

 about twenty-two weeks. However, long before 

 all the lambs were gone, we began upon the 

 mothers, according to the maxim of Swift, 

 with regard to the squirearchy of Ireland, who, 

 though everlastingly shifting from principle to 

 principle in politics; though ready to change 

 their creed of to-day for that of to-morrow, on 

 the most moderate terms imaginable, are, it 

 seems, no changelings in the affair of feasting ; for 



