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it is luxury. You in the nursing rocking-chair 

 which you have chosen, I in the elbow-chair, 

 both cushioned, the chairs, I presume, of the 

 old master and mistress ; the cheerful hearth 

 and our well-provisioned table ; potatoes, milk, 

 butter, all excellent. 



PISCATOR. These are the produce of the farm, 

 with the exception of the wheaten bread. The 

 flour is imported ; but the bread is made here, 

 and with yeast from their own brewing. About 

 this yeast I learnt a secret, when I was last 

 here, how it can be kept good at least a month, 

 by changing the water daily ; and, what is also 

 worth knowing, how brewer's yeast can be 

 deprived of its bitterness by a like change of 

 water. 



AMICTJS. Surely this bread, which reminds 

 me of Spanish bread, and is superior to any I 

 have tasted since I left Cadiz, is not household 

 bread. 



PISCATOR. It is " quality bread," as they call 

 it, and is a dainty, I dare say, reserved for the 

 old people. The family bread is oaten cake, 

 of which there is a baking every two or three 

 months. It and cheese are two of the chief 

 articles of diet of the farm-servants. 

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