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before, lest it should be broken to pieces. 

 To this some flour is added ; and they 

 drink sour milk after it. Their supper 

 always consists of flummery, made of bar- 

 ley-meal. Before they first go out in a 

 morning they eat either bread and butter, 

 or bread and cheese, but they prefer the 

 former. The mixed bread (made of corn 

 and chaff) is their ordinary portion ; good 

 bread, made entirely of corn, they seldom 

 or ever taste. It is reserved for visitors, or 

 for very extraordinary occasions. Their 

 mixed or household bread, being baked in 

 cakes as thin as paper, is eaten by laying 

 four or five such cakes together upon each 

 other. They are never unprovided with ale 

 in their cellars, to treat visitors, though their 

 ordinary drink is table beer. In summer 

 time they always drink Si/ra, (see vol. i. 

 p. 243.) 



The peasants themselves eat but very 



little of their own mutton, and chiefly the 



shoulder and brisket. The rest they sell ; 



scarcely any is kept in the house but the 



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