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DOMESTIC MANNEES OF TUE PRUSSIANS.

beef in all tlie world, too — is still tlie staple food of liis nativeland, and that his countrymen have not yet sunk to such anabyss of barbarism and squalor as to get their joints fromthe knacker's yard, and to be able to obtain a taste of meatonly by robbing tlie kennel.

As regards bread, the same wretclied account must begiven.

In even the wealthier families, loläte bread is eaten only ascake, whilst tlie ordinary household loaf consists of a com-position that is the colour of mill-board, being several shadesdarker tlian our gingerbread, as heavy as over-boiled yeast-dumplings, and as sour as " turned" beer.

The gentry, howerer, occasionally regale themselves witha "Milch-'' or " Wa&serbrödchen " (milk or water rolls), butsuch things are classed in the same dainty category as bimswith us.

It will be seen by the official price-list given below* thatthe town or baker-made varieties of the German staff of lifeare classified by the police, with all the pedantry of school-men, into the A, B, and C genera, whilst the country-made

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