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HOME-BREWED
BEER
Blessing
of
your
heart,
you
brew
good
ale.''
"
It
illuminateth
the
face,
warmeth
the
blood,
and
maketh
it
course
from
the
inwards
to
the
parts
extreme/'
A
quart
of
ale
is
a
dish
for
a
king/'
"
Sir,
I
have
now
in
my
cellar
ten
tim
of
the
best
ale
in
Staffordshire
j
*tis
smooth
as
oil,
sweet
as
milk,
clear
as
amber,
and
strong
as
brandy
j
and
wU\
be
just
fourteen
years old
the
fifth
day
of
next
March,
old
style."
ONE
of
the
finest
pamphlets
ever
issued
in
this
country
is
William
Cobbett's
Cottage
Economy."
Even
now
it
affords
good
stimulating
reading,
and
might
still
serve
as
a
wise
protest
against
the
pietistic
and
other
cant
of
the
times.
The
object
of
the
little
book
was
first
to
emphasize
the
sound
doctrines
that
no
nation
ever
was
or
ever
will
be
permanently
great
if
it
consists
to
any
large
extent
of
wretched
and
miser-
able
families;
that
a
family
to
be
happy
must
usually
be
well
supplied
with
food
and
raiment
;
and
that
it
is
to
blaspheme
God
to
suppose
that
He
created
men
to
be
miserable,
to
hunger,
to
thirst,
and
to
perish
with
cold
in
the
midst
of
that
abun-
dance
which
is
the
fruit
of
their
own
labour.
The
second
object
of
the
book
was
to
convey
to
the
families
of
the
labouring
classes
in
particular
such
in-
formation
as
to
the
preparation
of
food,
the
selection
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