[Remedy]

The cheese was transported down the eastern seaboard by sloop and sleigh, arriving in the Federal City on the evening of December 29. (By the time it reached Baltimore, one wag reported, the ripening cheese, now nearly six months removed from the cows, was strong enough to walk the remaining distance to Washington.)

[Doctor Stochastic]

Aged cheese (as does a Spanish wine) generally speaks with great authority.