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months, I can describe their way of living ; 

 as he lived at their table, The breakfast 

 consisted of coffee and salt herrings, and 

 sometimes salt beef. The bread was only 

 cakes made of hog's -lard and wheat-flour, 

 and not buttered. The dinner was salt 

 beef and bread, and sometimes potatoes 

 (which are very bad all over the country); 

 at other times, as a treat, the cattle-cabbage, 

 which was preserved in the cellar to keep it 

 from the frost : and water to drink. This 

 was in the winter. At the time of killing 

 their pigs they had fresh pork ; and when 

 they killed their beef (which was the cows 

 they had milked) they had fresh beef. 

 During the time my son was in their 

 family, which was four months, there was 

 not any butter used in the house, except in 

 the last fortnight ; nor did they buy any 

 article of food, but lived entirely on what 



