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wholesome, but it is one of the strongest prejudices of the 

 English peasant, that brown bread is not fit for human beings. 

 In Scotland and Ireland, and in some hilly districts of England, 

 only, wheat bread is displaced by more wholesome and eco 

 nomical preparations from oatmeal. 



With regard to fresh meat, a farmer once said to me, 

 &quot; They will hardly taste it all their lives, except, it may be, 

 once a-year, at a fair, when they ll go to the cook-shops and 

 stuff themselves with all they ll hold of it ; and if you could 

 see them, you d say they did not know what it was or what 

 was to be done with it cutting it into great mouthfuls and 

 gobbling it down without any chewing, like as a fowl does 

 barleycorns, till it chokes him.&quot; 



