A GENTLEMAN OF COLOUR ON BROWN BREAD.

Otago Witness, Issue 1499, 7 August 1880, Page 27

A GENTLEMAN OF COLOUR ON BROWN BREAD.

Seems to me dat most people hab only haf a loaf, when nature meant them to have a whole one. Dey hab de white haf, dat is nearly all starch, and all de odder part is giben to de rabbits and pigs. My heart is full of sorrowment when I see a poor woman go into a shop and put down good money for bad bread. I often meet dem in de morning wid a half.quartsrn fib peeping out from under dair shawls, beliebing, poor tings, dat dey are taking home to dair little ones a two-pound chip off de " staff of life." It's nothing ob de kind. If bread had always been white, it would nebber hab been called a staff, but a broken stick. Dare are thirteen minerals in de human body, and dey are all packed away In dat lubly little loaf called a grain ob wheat. Dey are all in dat same little loaf, for good old Mother Nature hid dem dere wid her own kind hands. Den let no one in future steal anything from dis odd little bread-basket, whioh our Father has so richly stored wid physical blessings. It costs de farmer many pounds for manures of different kinds dat de wheat may be perfec ; and arter money, hard work, and nature hab done all dair work in de most perfec manner, de miller takes dis bootiful golden grain all to pieces, unpacks all the marv'lous 'gredients wid which it am stored, actu'lly has de wickedness to take some ob it away and trow it to de pigs and rabbits, and other poor relations, when nature sent it all for us. Some one ought to put dat miller into anudder shop. Dere is one kept by Government, where dey got a mill worked by de feet— dats where he ought to go, for we can't 'ford to be treated in dis way. Nature S9nds us all, aud he only gives us haf.— Evan's Journal.