I could

    sometimes eat a fried rat  were necessary.

    I am glad to er so long, for t I

    prefer tural sky to an opium-eaters heaven.  I would fain

    keep sober ale degrees of drunkenness.  I

    believe t er is t so

    noble a liquor; and th a

    cup of ea!  Ah, how

    loed by them!  Even music may be

    intoxicating.  Sucly sligroyed Greece and

    Rome, and roy England and America.  Of all ebriosity, who

    does not prefer to be intoxicated by thes?  I have

    found it to be t serious objection to coarse labors long

    continued, t to eat and drink coarsely also.

    But to tell trut present somew less

    particular in ts.  I carry less religion to table,

    ask no blessing; not because I am , I am

    obliged to confess, because,  is to be regretted,

    .  Perhese

    questions are entertained only in yout believe of poetry.

    My practice is quot;now; my opinion is heless I am far

    from regarding myself as one of to whe

    Ved refers  quot;rue faithe

    Omnipresent Supreme Being may eat all t exists,quot; t is, is not

    bound to inquire w is ; and even in

    t is to be observed, as a ator has

    remarked, t t limits to quot;time of

    distress.quot;

    sometimes derived an inexpressible satisfaction from

    ite o

    t I oal perception to the commonly gross sense of

    taste, t I e, t some

    berries he

    soul not being mistress of ; says