text:  An enormous salad crisp cold white and of delicious flavour for a halfpenny; olive oil for fourpence a pound to dress it with; and wine for fourpence a gallon to make it disagree with you;[15] fuel for almost nothing and bread for little are not small advantages to frugal housekeepers; but when dispensed by a despotic government where one must read those revolting words _motu proprio_ at the head of every edict let us go back to our carrots and potatoes our Peels and our income-tax our fogs and our frost