52 ON SWINI^. 



Shortening for ninety-two suj)erficial feet ofsliort-cake, 

 end — 



Ditto, for two thousand three hundred and seventy- 

 eight very corpulent doughnuts. 



It only remains in closing this memoir to give some 

 account of his manner of living ; and here candor com- 

 pels us to the admission that he lived and died a bache- 

 lor, but in extenuation we have the best of reasons for 

 believing that like many others of that unhappy class this 

 was his misfortune and not his ftiult. He was careless 

 of his personal appearance and gave no employment to 

 the tailor, dentist or barber. He was equally uncon- 

 cerned about the furniture of his ha})itation, and his car- 

 pet, although ofhome production, had all the softness if 

 not the variety of colors of the Brussels. He was irreg- 

 ular in hisrhabits, eating when hungry, drinking when 

 thirsty, and sleeping when inclined by nature to rest. 

 Mr. Alley informed us with apparent sincei'ity that he 

 subsisted mainlj' on raw Indian meal and potatoes. The 

 Committee know Mr. Alley to be a gentleman of strict 

 veracity and they do not like to question his statements — 

 but they had supposed it more likely that he lived on 

 green turtle soup and pound cake with an occasional 

 meal of boiled sahnon and canvass back ducks. Indeed 

 they have the evidence of some of the neighbors that 

 fragments of these and other delicacies were frequently 

 seen about his dining-trough, which, if true, would go 

 far to account for the extraordinary bulk to which he 

 attained. 



It is a source of much gratification to your Committee 

 that the knights of the snout and bristle have had their 

 advocates among the wise and learned of all ages. Per- 

 haps the race is as much indebted for the consideration 

 in which they r.re at present held to that pleasing wri- 

 ter, the late Charles Lamb, as to any other author. It 

 is highly gratifying to see this prince of modern Essay- 

 ists, essaying to speak the praises of pork. We cannot 

 forbear quoting a few sentences from his Dissertation on 

 Roast Pig, as published in the Essays of Elia : — 



u pia_let me speak his praise — is no less provocative 



