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NEAR each farm there is a kitchen*, 

 garden, in which onions are moft abun* 

 dant; becaufe the 1 French farmers eat their 

 dinners of them with bread, on Fridays and 

 Saturdays, or failing days.' However, I 

 cannot fay, the French are ftridl obfervers 

 of fafting ; for feverai of my rowers ate 

 flefh to-day, though it was Friday. The 

 common people in Canada may be fmelled 

 when one pafles by them, on account of 

 their frequent ufe of onions. Pumpions 

 are likewife abundant in the farmer's gar- 

 dens. They drefs them in feverai ways, 

 but the moft common is to cut them 

 through the middle, and place the infide 

 on the hearth, towards the fire, till it is 

 quite roafted. The pulp is then cut out 

 of the peel, and eaten ; people above the 

 vulgar put fugar to it. Carrots, fallad, 

 French beans, cucumbers, and currant 

 ihrubs, are planted in every farmer's little 

 kitchen-garden. 



EVERY farmer plants a quantity of to- 

 bacco Dear his houfe, in proportion to the 

 iize of his family. It is likewife very ne- 

 ceffary that they (hould plant tobacco, be- 

 caufe it is fo univerfally fmoaked by the 

 common people. Boys of ten or twelve 

 years oi age, run about with the pipe in 

 their mouths, as well as the old people. 



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