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dress'd over again, in that palatable, savory way peculiar to the
blacks, and which has made many a mistress, say the servants
food was better than their master's--I say peculiar to the blacks,
for I have so often observed the difference in this and many other
respects between them and the whites, that it may be deem'd
a distinguishing trait. A poor white family, would have put,
the cold meat, cover'd with cold gravy, on the table, and have eaten
it with less relish and enjoyment--But give to a negro, crusts
of bread, vegetables, and a few bones, or {coarse?}, refuse scraps of
meat, and he will make a fricondeau, whose savory fumes, will
regale you, before you taste it. [It would have done ones heart
good, to have seen Becky, nicely cutting up, now a slice of meat,
now of bread, now some cold potatoes, and frying them up on
her skillet (that most useful of all useful utensils in a poor man's kit-
chen) setting on a low block by the fire, while the children were eagerly
busy one handing a little more salt, another the pepper, and caper-
ing about, turning over head and heels for joy, then running to peek
in the skillet, as their mother sat stirring it --every { ?}
and then exclaiming, "oh how good it smells"--smacking their lips
and snapping their fingers--til at last it was served up.
Oh could the rich, peep on such a scene, certainly they would
take care that the crumbs, which fell from their tables, should
be saved for the poor, instead of being wasted, as they knew too
generaly are by careless servants.--Yes, the crumbs and scraps
thrown to the dogs, would make many a family leap and
sing for joy.--But those who are so high fed, that they
know not the sensation of hunger, how can they imagine
these things--It is not as Richard said from hard-
heartedness, it is from ignorance; that the rich are so insen-
sible to the sufferings of the poor.--And while they are
contented in discharging the duty of charity, by large subscription
to public institutions, or giving alms to the beggar that asks
at their doors, that ignorance can never be removed.

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