KECOLLECTIONS, 1827. Ill 



"Infernal stupid fools, beastly bipeds, you ought to 

 eat hay instead of bread." 



Much ado about nothing some one might say ! Yes 

 it was something ! and the morality of it would have 

 been this: If that beastly man had been able to 

 strangle me as his disposition appeared to be, nobody 

 would have interfered in my behalf, for in rny honest 

 conviction they had the same ideas more or less, for 

 not one expressed his indignity of the insult to me, 

 and in such case you know the old saying * ' who says 

 nothing consents." 



To end that confession, I will tell all my SINS in that 

 fanatical strife was, that when that man addressed me 

 I thought from his look that he was to . leap over the 

 table and take me by the neck. I had my hand on a 

 decanter half full of water, and if he had jumped or 

 turned round the table and touched me I would have 

 smashed it on his head, unless he had been the strongest, 

 and to-day, after over 64 years, I still believe nobody 

 would have interfered, though probably none would 

 have helped him, but 



Now, I would like to ask those who may have read 

 the first part of my biography, what they think of that 

 incident "eating boiled beef" on a Good Friday, or 

 any other Friday, after other persons would have eaten 



