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one comes into the houfe of a Canada pea- 

 fant, or farmer, he gets up, takes his hat 

 off to the ftranger, defires him to fit down, 

 puts his hat on and fits down again. The 

 gentlemen and ladies, as well as the poor- 

 eft peafants Nand their wives, are called 

 Monjieur and Madame. The peafants, and 

 efpecially their wives, wear fhoes, which 

 confift of a piece of wood hollowed out, 

 and are made almoft as flippers. Their 

 boys, and the old peafants themfelves, 

 wear their hair hehind in a cue ; and moft 

 of them wear red woollen caps at home, 

 and fometimes on their journies. 



THE farmers prepare moft of their difhes 

 of milk. Butter ib but feldom feen, and 

 what they have is made of four cream, 

 and therefore not fo good as Englifo but- 

 ter. Many of the French are very fond 

 of milk, which they eat chiefly on fafting 

 days. However, they have not fo many 

 methods of preparing it as we have in Swe- 

 den.- The common way was to boil it, 

 anct >ut bits of bread, and a good deal of 

 fugar, into it. The French here eat near 

 as much fleih as the Englifh, on thofe days 

 when their religion allows it. For ex- 

 cepnng the foup, the fallads, and the de- 

 fert, ail their other difhes confift of flefh 

 varioufly prepared. 



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