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have a bowl of raspberries and milk for break- 

 fast every day in July. There is not a family 

 controlling twelve square feet of ground but 

 could grace their tea-table with the chief deli- 

 cacy of the season. People who often make 

 long expeditions through the fields, trampling 

 down their neighbors' grass and grain, to obtain 

 a few quarts of inferior fruit, might have an 

 abundant daily supply within twenty feet of the 

 kitchen-door. The ladies should take the mat- 

 ter of small fruits in hand themselves. With a 

 tithe of the attention they give to their back 

 hair, they could secure from husbands, and those 

 who might become such, quite as much admira- 

 tion, by placing before the lordly animal a dish 

 that might even tempt a spirit of the air. (Met- 

 aphysicians have found the heart and stomach 

 nearer together than the physiologists.) For 

 the encouragement of those who nurse a gera- 

 nium or monthly rose through the season, it can 



