rned from my t it

    incredibly little trouble to obtain ones necessary food, even in

    titude; t a man may use as simple a diet as the animals,

    and yet retain rengtisfactory

    dinner, satisfactory on several accounts, simply off a dish of

    purslane (Portulaca oleracea) whered in my cornfield,

    boiled and salted.  I give tin on account of the savoriness of

    trivial name.  And pray w more can a reasonable man desire,

    in peaceful times, in ordinary noons, t number of

    ears of green s corn boiled, ion of salt?  Even

    ttle variety he demands of

    appetite, and not of  men o suc

    tly starve, not for  of necessaries, but for  of

    luxuries; and I know a good woman w  his

    life because ook to drinking er only.

    t I am treating t rather

    from an economic tetic point of view, and

    venture to put my abstemiousness to test unless he has a

    ocked larder.

    Bread I at first made of pure Indian meal and salt, genuine

    of doors on a shingle or

    tick of timber sa

    to get smoked and to ried flour

    also; but  last found a mixture of rye and Indian meal most

    convenient and agreeable.  In cold  tle

    amusement to bake several small loaves of this in succession,

    tending and turning tian ching

    eggs.  t whey had

    to my senses a fragrance like t of ots, which I

    kept in as long as possible by hs.  I made a

    study of t and ind