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with garlic, and quinces. The Germans fill this bird with 
apples, and chestnuts, and serve it with red cabbage. On 
July 3rd, Lord’s-day (1664), Pepys, as his Diary tells, “ went 
to dinner where the remains of yesterday’s venison, and a couple 
of brave green Geese, we were fain to eat alone, because they will 
not keep, which troubled us.”’ For a vegetarian dish, “‘ Savoury 
Goose,”’ soak half a pound of brown haricot beans for six or 
eight hours, boil them till tender, and rub through a wire sieve ; 
peel, and chop coarsely three onions, and fry these in butter ; 
mix together the beans, and onions, and add half a pound of 
bread-crumbs, two ounces of butter, two tablespoonfuls of 
finely-chopped sage, four raw eggs beaten up, and salt, and pepper 
to taste. Grease a basin, and pour in the mixture, cover with 
buttered paper, and steam for two hours; turn it out, and allow 
it to become cold, and to set. Flour a board, and cut into slices 
of two fingers’ breadth, and an inch thick ; dip each into beaten-up 
egg, sprinkle all the sides with finely-crushed brown bread- 
crumbs, and fry a golden brown. Serve with brown gravy 
(made with fried onion, lemon-juice, brown sugar, cornflour, 
and water, boiled together), and apple-sauce. 
Gastronomers pronounce a March Goose insipid, and a 
Michaelmas Goose rank. The Hebrews are said to eat more 
Geese than any other class of persons. “‘ Three women and a 
Goose ” are supposed to make a market. We have a proverb 
““ As wise as a Goose;” and it is a matter of history that Geese 
saved the Roman capital. Saint Martin’s Day, November 11th, 
when a second little summer is proverbial, stands denoted in old 
almanacks by the sign of the Goose. “ Whom all people 
worshippeth with roasted Goose, and wine.” The quaint 
Nursery Rhyme with its subtle religious significance, is familiar 
to us all :— 
** Goosey, goosey, gander, 
Whither Shall E wander ? 
Upstairs, and downstairs, and to my lady’s chamber. 
There I met an old man 
Who wouldn’t say his prayers, 
I took him by the left leg, 
And threw him down the stairs.” 
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The principal virtue of grapes is contained in their sugar, which 
differs chemically from cane sugar, and passes more quickly into 
