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tainted ; they should be hung long to make them tender, and 
then always roasted. Sauerkraut (the pickled cabbage) goes 
well with them, if stewed with butter, and a little wine, in 
standard broth. “I think,” said a wise and gracious hostess 
“Grouse is a dinner.” As an accompaniment nothing can 
equal French beans, which nature supplies precisely at the right 
time. The liver of grouse when cooked separately, pounded 
with butter, salt, and cayenne pepper, is, if spread upon toast, to 
be much commended. Soyer liked to eat grouse absolutely by 
themselves, with nothing but a crust of bread. Watercress 
suits for an adjunct, as with most roasted birds. From twenty 
to thirty minutes should be the time allowed for roasting a 
young grouse: but there should be nothing red, or soignant 
about the bird when carved ; if possible it should be taken from 
the fire promptly after the ‘last likelihood of such a trace has 
disappeared. | 
As commendable aids to the digestion of all game, a prune 
salad, and freshly expressed orange juice, are of service to the 
invalid ; likewise a sauce made with equal parts of orange and 
lemon juice, with brown sugar added thereto in sufficient quan- 
tity. Sir Henry Thompson has told of a wild duck roasted and 
served without sauce. The bird was served over a spirit lamp, 
and after some long slices had been carved from the breast, the 
remains of the bird were put into a nickel-silvered press, when 
a few turns of the lever brought forth “a quantity of hot, rich, 
red juice to make a most exquisite sauce.” 
The Hare (Lepus), as to its medicinal uses in whole, or parts, 
has been considered somewhat fully in Kitchen Physic. Here 
we may sum up its character generally on a consensus of evidence 
as “melancholy meat,” bad for persons disposed to hypochon- 
dria, and sluggish liver. The Egpytians expressed a melancholy 
man by a hare sitting in her form. Lucretius attributed sadness 
to the influence of hares even amid nature’s brightest surround- 
ings. 
ft ** Medio de fonte leporum 
Surgit amari aliquid quod in ipsis floribus angat.” 
The poet Cowper (1780) whose lamentable fits of depression 
are on literary record, chose pet hares, Puss, Tiny, and Bess, 
wherewith to try and divert his mind. 
“Never give way to melancholy,” taught Sydney Smith, 
“‘ resist it steadily, for the habit will encroach. I once gave a 
