The following lesson on pepper appeared in the third edition of Elizabeth Mayo's Lessons on Objects (1832): “Lesson I. Pepper. Qualities of Pepper. It is hard, vegetable, foreign. It is a tropical production, wrinkled, spherical, rough, black, conservative, dry, dull. It is sapid, pungent, odorous, aromatic, medicinal, wholesome, useful, stimulating.Elizabeth Mayo, Lessons on Objects, as Given to Children Between the Ages of Five and Eight, in a Pestalozzian School, At Cheam,, Surrey, 3d ed. (London: R. B. Seeley and W. Burnside, 1832), 68.