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fpccies of maggot peculiar, perhaps, to this 

 coi^nty, with every appearance of tamcnefs and 

 refignation ; as if they were confcious of its 

 being a judgment upon their evil manage- 

 ment. 



But even, in this cafe, cuftom is friendly 

 to them : for fuch is the depravity of tafte, 

 \vhen ied away imperceptibly by habit, that 

 even the maggots themfelves arc to fome 

 grateful. 



This, however, is only a palliation of their 

 crime ; for, not unfrequently, the entire dairy, 

 except the ordinary Ikim-cheefe, is mor,e ' or 

 lefs affetted ; fo that, before Michaelmas, the 

 cbeefes would be literally fo many bags of 

 maggots, were they not fold off, and con- 

 fumed, at an age, at which, in any other coun- 

 try, they would not be ranked among human 

 food. I have myfelf fcen a dairy of cheefe — 

 that is, the ftock then left on hand — in total 

 ruins before that time. An Eafl-Norfolk 

 cheefe, found and whole at Chridmaa, is a 

 rarity; by Lady-day, there is not, generally 

 ipcaking, a pound of Norfolk cheefe, nor even 

 a handful of maggots, to be purehafed in the 

 ViMii. 



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