else from its growing fat on the sudden with the worst of nutriment. It may not seem credible, yet parsimony appears in the midst of their profuseness: but then it is very ill placed, for it is in crumbs, bones, and crusts. They do not so much as keep any dogs, cats, hawks, or anything that eats flesh. If any person suffer meat to stink, he is impaled; but venison and rabbits are to have the _haut-gout_: and then their cheese is kept till it is overrun with little animals, which they devour with mustard and sugar. This is an odd sort of custom, derived from the Dutch. The country abounds with rivers, which ebb and flow according to their digestion, and generally overflow at the beginning of January, and towards the end of February, and do mischief to the neighbouring country. CHAPTER VII. _Of the Wars of the Pamphagonians._ The Pamphagones have perpetual wars with the Hambrians, or the Fancetic Islands, and the Frugonians. * * * * * _Cætera desunt._ THE END. PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE, HANSON AND CO. LONDON AND EDINBURGH End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Ideal Commonwealths, by Various