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68. The putting of the beer into barrel is not more 

 than an hour's work for a servant woman, or a trades- 

 man's or a farmer's wife. There is no heavy work, no 

 work too heavy for a woman in any part of the busi- 

 ness, otherwise I would not recommend it to be per- 

 formed by the women, who, though so amiable in them- 

 selves, are never quite so amiable as when they are 

 useful; and as to beauty, though men may fall in love 

 with girls at play -, there is nothing to make them stand 

 to their love like seeing them at work. In conclusion 

 of these remarks on beer brewing, I once more express 

 my most anxious desire to see abolished for' ever the 

 accursed tax on malt, which, I verily believe, has 

 done more harm to the people of England than was 

 ever done to any people by plague, pestilence, famine, 

 and civil war. 



69. In Paragraph 76, in Paragraph 108, and per- 

 haps in another place or two (of the last edition,)- 1 

 spoke of the machine for brewing. The work being 

 stereotyped, it would have been troublesome to alter 

 those paragraphs ; but, of course, the public, in read- 

 ing them, will bear in mind what has been now said 

 relative to the machine. The inventor of that ma- 

 chine deserves great praise for his efforts to promote 

 private brewing ; and, as I said before, in certain con- 

 fined situations, and where the beer is to be merely 

 small beer, and for immediate use, and where time 

 and room are of such importance as to make the cost 

 of the machine comparatively of trifling considera- 

 tion, the machine may possibly be found to be an use- 

 ful utensil. 



70. Having stated the inducements to the brewing 

 of beer, and given the plainest directions that I was 

 able to give for the doing of the thing, I shall, next, 

 proceed to the subject of bread. But this subject is 

 too large and of too much moment to be treated with 

 brevity, and must, therefore, be put off till my next 

 Number. I cannot, in the mean while, dismiss the 

 subject of brewing 1 beer without once more adverting 

 to its many advantages, as set forth in the foregoing 

 Number of this work. 



