The millers and dealers, who of course made their profits in these times, did frequently grind up the whole corn without separating the grain from the husks, and the shell of a grain of Indian corn does not, when ground, become soft flour.

This woman had reason for her complaints, as had many thousands reason for similar complaints.
"Don't be throubling the ladies, Kitty," said an old man standing by; "sure and weren't you glad enough to be getting it." "She'd be axing the ladies to go home wid her and cook it for her after giving it her," said another.
"Who says it war guv' me ?" said the angry mother.

"Didn't I buy it, here at this counter, with Mike's own hard-'arned money?
and it's chaiting us they are.

Give me back my money." And she looked at Clara as though she meant to attack her across the counter.
"Mr.Fitzgerald is going to put up a mill of his own, and then the corn will be better ground," said Emmeline Fitzgerald, deprecating the woman's wrath.
"Put up a mill!" said the woman, still in scorn.

"Are you going to give me back my money; or food that my poor bairns can ate ?" This individual little difficulty was ended by a donation to the angry woman of another lot of meal, in taking away which she was careful not to leave behind her the mess which she had brought in her handkerchief.