202 THE CAMPAIGN IN SEPTEMBER. 



Despise not the onion, Miss Angelica. It is 

 classical, nay, more, it is sacred. Behold the 

 most venerable nation of the world in tears 

 " the people weeping throughout their families, 

 every man in the door of his tent." What was 

 the touching cause. Memory memory of the 

 past past " leeks, onions, and garlic." 



Through the leeks, Hebrew patriotism, forti- 

 tude, and faith oozed out, and unmanned, they 

 wept aloud. Thus the associations of mystery, 

 antiquity, and sentiment, as well as deepest 

 emotion, centre in this odorous bulb. Cease, 

 then, Angelica cease, artificial society, thy un- 

 just and too often assumed contempt for the 

 onion. Let us be true. 



Braced by these historical memories, and tru 

 record of sales on my cash-book, I shall boldly 

 refer to the onion whenever occasion requires ; 

 and I now proceed to state I have found grcal 

 advantage in putting rmny of my " sets" (small 



