Quantity with my Pipe after Dinner and my Pipe in the
Evening, never exceeding a Pint the whole Day; and I desire
nothing else except one glass of Wine immediately after
Dinner the whole day. I generally take one Pipe after Dinner
and another in the Evening, and hold a small piece of
pigtail Tobacco in my mouth from Breakfast till near Dinner,
and again in the Afternoon till tea; this has been my
practice for 80 years--I use no Snuff--I drink tea about
sunset and eat with it a small slice of Bread toasted with
Butter--I never eat any thing more till Breakfast.

I have not often had any complaint from indigestion, but
when I have, abstinence from Breakfast or Dinner, or both,
has usually removed it; indeed I have several times thrown
off serious Complaints by Abstinence.--As to Clothing, it is
what my Friends call thin; I never wear Flannel next my Skin
tho' often advised to it, and am less liable to take cold,
as it is called, than most people--a good warm double
breasted Waist-Coat and a Cloth coat answers me for winter,
and as the season grows warmer I gradually conform my
Covering to it. As to the Passions, Sir, I need not tell you
that when indulged, they injure the Health; that a calm,
quiet self-possession, and a moderation in our Expectations
and Pursuits, contribute much to our Health, as well as our
happiness, and that Anxiety is injurious to both.

I had a good Set of Teeth, but they failed me gradually,
without Pain, so that by 80 I lost them all.

Thus, Sir, you have, blundering and imperfect as it is, an