USES TO WHICH [Chap. 



and prove, that I could save them all this 

 trouble, they would say " God bless you, Sir ; you 

 ^' are the best friend (the inventor of tea and 

 '' sugar excepted) that ever administered to the 

 '^ comfort of woman kind." Well, then, this I 

 do for them now ; let their husbands raise some 

 Cobbett's Corn, the leathern aprons may be 

 converted into spatter-dashes for them, the 

 warm milk or greasy water may be given to young 

 pigs, the bowl may be converted into a por- 

 ringer for a boy to eat porridge out of, the coops, 

 well broken up by the pole of the axe, may go to 

 light the fire 3 and the four hours saved morning 

 and evening may be employed in spinning and 

 preparing the stuff to make shirts, and shifts, and 

 sheets ; or, which makes less noise, in knitting- 

 stockings for the whole family. Every English- 

 man who has been in America, and who does 

 not think that the honour of his country is to be 

 preserved by telling lies about it, will acknow- 

 ledge, that, the pork and the poultry is there the 

 best he ever tasted in his life. [ hardly ever saw 

 one so very contemptibly perverse as not to ac- 

 knowledge this ; and here is the sole cause. 

 You will buy a turkey of twelve or fourteen 

 pounds weight for a dollar, that is to say, four 

 and sixpence of our money, while even a woman's 

 wages is not less than from fifteen to twelve dol- 

 lars a month, even if boarded in your house; 



