1903 The still-room by C. Roundell

HOME-BREWED BEER

Blessing of your heart, you brew good ale.''

" It illuminateth the face, warmeth the blood, and maketh it course from the inwards to the parts extreme/' A quart of ale is a dish for a king/' " Sir, I have now in my cellar ten tim of the best ale in Staffordshire j *tis smooth as oil, sweet as milk, clear as amber, and strong as brandy j and wU\ be just fourteen years old the fifth day of next March, old style." ONE of the finest pamphlets ever issued in this country is William Cobbett's Cottage Economy." Even now it affords good stimulating reading, and might still serve as a wise protest against the pietistic and other cant of the times. The object of the little book was first to emphasize the sound doctrines that no nation ever was or ever will be permanently great if it consists to any large extent of wretched and miser- able families; that a family to be happy must usually be well supplied with food and raiment ; and that it is to blaspheme God to suppose that He created men to be miserable, to hunger, to thirst, and to perish with cold in the midst of that abun- dance which is the fruit of their own labour. The second object of the book was to convey to the families of the labouring classes in particular such in- formation as to the preparation of food, the selection 71