ADVICE FOR LACKLAND 



— as a city friend once suggested in a flow of 

 cheery, rural exuberance) ; nor do I think any- 

 thing can be righteously said against a snug 

 bit of clear pork in a dish of boiled corned 

 brisket of beef; nay, I would still further 

 extend the exception to a crisp fry of delicate 

 slices as an accompaniment of grilled trout, 

 where the latter fall below a half-pound in 

 weight; nor do I think great harm of a thin 

 blanket of the same condiment to enwrap a 

 roasted quail, or slivers of it to enlard deli- 

 cately a fricandeau of veal. But, as for pork 

 chops, or pork foast, or pork boiled, to be 

 eaten as the chief piece nutritive of a dinner— 

 it is an abomination! Our friends the Jews 

 have not only Scriptural reasc«i in the thing, 

 but reasons physiological. 



"And now, my dear fellow, having de- 

 spatched your pig (who should be bought for 

 five or six dollars at seven weeks old, and 

 should be sold at twenty— from the growth of 

 your garden and a splicing bag of ship stuff), 

 you will have, if you have used proper vig- 

 ilance, some three to four loads of choice com- 

 post to contribute to the vegetable growth of 

 the next season. There is a notion that ma- 

 nure from such a source provokes the growth 

 of club-foot in cabbages and cauliflowers; but 



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