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one comes into the houfe of a Canada pea- 

 fant, or farmer, he gets up, takes his hat 

 ofF to the flranger, defires him to fit dov/n, 

 puts his hat on and fits down again. Th^ 

 gentlemen and ladies, as well as the poor- 

 eft peafants an-d their wives, are called 

 Monfieur and Madame. The peafants, and 

 efpeciaily their wives, wear flioes, which 

 confift of a piece of wood hollowed our, 

 and are made almoft as flippers. Their 

 boys, and the old peafants themfelves, 

 wear their hair behind in a cue ; and moft 

 of them wear red woollen caps at home, 

 and fometimes on their journies. 



The farmers prepare moft of their difhes 

 of milk. Butter ib but feldom feen, and 

 what they have is made of four cream, 

 and therefore not fo good as Englifi but- 

 ter. Many of the French are very fond 

 of milk, vvhich they eat chiefly on fafi:ing 

 days. However, they have not fo many 

 methods of preparing it as we have in Swe- 

 den. The common way was to boil it, 

 and put bits of bread, and a good deal of 

 fugar, into it. The Fre?i<:h here eat near 

 as much flefh as the EngliJJj, on thofe days 

 when their religion allows it. For ex- 

 cepting the foup, the fallads, and the de- 

 fert, all their other diilies confifi of flefh 

 varioufly prepared. 



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