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    of so extraordinary a thing as economy , the travellers might well have the preference to the wild hogs , or wilder vultures , condors , hawks , and eagles . But the travellers would have had some trouble in procuring bread from the peasants , either for love or money , if by any strange chance the peasants had possessed any . Bread in the Pampas is like a plum-cake in the poor-house of an English parish .

    Yes , father . I remember when you drew the loaf from your wallet at the hut of the mare-hunters on the Indian frontier , to give it me to eat with the roasted beef , the children all came round me , and looked at it so eagerly , that I could not help giving- it to them , and they devoured it as rapidly as I did the water-melons at the ford of the Tercero river , the day the American traveller said it was so ' awful hot that the sun had gone clean out of the thermometer , * and you laug-bed for half an hour . While the children were eating the loaf , their mother thanked God ' that they had lived to taste bread /

    Was there not another reason , boy , for giving away thy loaf ? Didst thou not prefer beef alone ? Thy colour mounts , boy ! I did but jest . I know well thou vvouldest have given beef and bread and all away , for the gratification of feeding those children . But when thou wert younger , scarce three years of age , thou didst live for months without other food than half-roasted beef and brackish water .

    Of a surety thou wert half a savage in thy externals ; bare-headed , bare-footed , bare-armed , and thv skin sun-burned like to a tree ' s bark . Yet was thy voice of pleasing treble , while thy speech evinced all kindly thoughts . The Scripture says , ' Man shall not live by bread alone / After so long going even beyond the letter , abstaining altogether from bread , it seems to me marvellous strange that thou canst now he content to eat bread alone , and think it a cure for

    hunger . Of a surety it would choke me , though I fall not under the anathema of Lavater : * Keep him at least three paces distant from you who hates bread , music , and the laugh of a child . ' But yonder stands a baker at his door in that wide street . Let us bend our steps thither . He is a Scot by his name ; ay , and his physiognomy confirms it .

    How happens it that there are so many Scotch bakers m England ? Scotland , like other places , produces more people than food , and the surplus , who cannot procure a living at home , are forced to export themselves . These , with few exceptions , will mostly be found of two classes—those possessed of considerable intellect , and those of inferior intellect . The first go forth principally from a desire of bettering their condition in life , i . e . becoming rich . The last are moved by the

    absolute necessity of procuring the means of bare existence , being principally mere labourers , with little skill . One of the coarse jests formerly in vogue was , that when Scotchmen came up to London from the north , they stopped on the top of Highgate-hill , and borrowed a halfpenny of the first passenger , to toss up heads or tails , ' thereby

    to decide whether they should become bakers or gardeners , * . e . beaters of dough or diggers of ground , the amount of skill in either being very trifling . But how could they get from Scotland to London without a halfpenny in their pockets f

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    Juvenile Lessons . 76 * 1

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  • Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1833, page 761, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2626/page/29/