What are the husks in the text above referred to? Is the article which I enclose consistent? Subscriber. The article which our subscriber encloses is a consistent article. The husks are the fruit of the carob-tree, which was not considered generally a proper fruit for humanity, but for swine. And yet the poor prodigal was in that condition that he would gladly have eaten the food which he fed to the swine. His condition may be compared to that of some of the box makers in the cities of Europe, who become so hungry that they have eaten the paste that they use in the manufacture of the boxes, so that the manufacturers have compelled them to furnish their own paste.