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. No boarder should sleep on a feather bed during any part of the year; but his bed should be a hair, moss, or straw mattrass, or any thing harder if he chooses.

. Breakfast.—No animal food of any kind (including fowl and fish—salt and fresh) should be brought upon the breakfast table; nor should any such food be eaten by any of the boarders for their breakfast. But the best bread that can be made or procured, of unboulted and coarsely ground wheaten meal, should always be provided for the table; also, rye, indian, barley, and oatmeal bread, may be eaten at each and every meal; but these varieties are not all to be used at the same meal, and they should be regulated by a rule of the house, established by a majority of the boarders, so as to protect the keepor of the house from unreasonable and capricious demands for change and rariety.

The bread should not be eaten until at least twelve hours after it comes from the oven, and it is better at twenty-four hours old; and if toasted, it should not be buttered till it is quite cold; and no warm cakes, buck-wheat nor any other kind, should be brought upon the table at any time. Indian samp, horniny, ani mush, and plain boiled rice, with milk, sugar, or molasses, but without butter, may be taken at breakfast, or either of the other meals. Slightly boiled eggs may be eaten, but not exceeding two,