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be such to the body ,or not, is a matter of far 

 less consequence. My Letter to Mr. TIERNEY, 

 on the state of the Paper-Money, has, I find, 

 produced a great and general impression ill- 

 England. The subject was of great import 

 ance, and the treating it involved much of that 

 sort of reasoning which is the most difficult of 

 execution. That Letter, consisting of thirty- 

 two full pages of print, \ wrote in one day, and 

 that, too, on the llth of July, the hottest day 

 in the year. But, I never could have done this, 

 if I had been guzzling wine, or grog, or beer, 

 or cider, all the day. I hope the reader will 

 excuse this digression ; and, for my own part, I 

 think nothing of the charge of egotism, if, by 

 indulging in it, I produce a proof of the excel 

 lent effects of sobriety. It is not drunkenness 

 that I cry out against: that is beastly, and be 

 neath my notice. It is drinking; for* a man 

 may be a great drinker, and yet no drunkard. 

 He may accustom himself to swallow, 'till his 

 belly is a sort of tub. The Spaniards, who are 

 a very sober people, call such a man " a wine 

 " bag," it being the custom in that country to 

 put wine into bags, made of skins or hides. 

 And, indeed, wine bag or grog bag or beer bag 

 is the suitable appellation. 



231. To return to the Swedish Turnips, it 

 was impossible for me to attend to them in per- 



