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called pork, and when this is salted it will keep a 

 long time. The salt pork is put into tubs and some 

 of it is put on board ships that are going for long 

 sails over the big ocean. The sailors cannot get 

 much fresh food out at sea, and if it were not for 

 salted pork and beef, they would have no meat at all. 



"Ham, bacon, and sausages we get from the pig, 

 also, and when all of the fleshy parts have been dis- 

 posed of, there are still some other uses for piggy. 

 The brushes with which we smooth our hair, clean 

 our clothes, wash our teeth, and black our shoes are 

 all made from the stiff hairs on his back; his skin, 

 so thick and hard that no water will run through it, 

 makes the best of saddles; some of his bones are 

 made into buttons, hair-pins, and combs, while the 

 hoofs, refuse grease, and bones are converted into 

 glue, soap, candles, bone meal, and fertilizer." 



The children found out at home and brought long 

 lists of food in which mamma used lard and other 

 parts of the flesh of the pig, and they had a clay 

 "baking day," when they made doughnuts, pies, 

 croquettes, etc., galore. 



To their list they now added: 



