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DRASTIC PUNISHMENT.

We hear a great deal nowadays ahout - pure bread, but we seem to be more tolerant of adulteration than was the custom in the old days (says the "Westminster Gazetto"). Mr Walter W. Skeat, in a little hook, "The Past at Our Doors," just issued by Messrs Macmillan, says that adulteration used to be punished with extreme severity. £i The fraudulent baker, if net stripped and whipped at tho cross-roads, was drawn on a hurdle with the offending loaf round his neck, and pilloried, or else, for repeating the offence a third time, had his oven destroyed, and was himself forced to forswear the trade for ever." Sometimes bakers were in the habit of putting iron in a loaf to make it heavier, and this was treated as n special offence and punished accordinclv.

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Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 6

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DRASTIC PUNISHMENT. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 6

DRASTIC PUNISHMENT. Press, Volume LXVII, Issue 14029, 28 April 1911, Page 6