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from malt liquors : we buy it from elsewhere ; so 

 that, in the eyes of the impartial political economist 

 at least, the Hessian fly in Britain must be regarded 

 as an unmitigated national misfortune. 



The grub eats and eats, in his safe cradle between 

 the sheath and the stem, till he is ready to pass 



NO. 5. SEVEN LEAN EARS, ATTACKED BY GRUBS. 



into the adult condition. But he does this by 

 various and complicated stages, all of which I do 

 not propose to set forth in full with the tedious 

 minuteness of a scientific treatise, lest I weary that 

 fastidious and somewhat lazy person, the " general 

 reader." It must suffice here to say, in brief, that 



