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into which the chopped up rabbits have been placed, are tied 
within a crate, and then lowered into a tank where, being first 
hermetically sealed, they are boiled for eight hours by steam. 
At the end of such time the tins are removed, the small hole at 
the top of each being re-opened, so as to let the steam, which has 
accumulated during the process of cooking, pass off. Before 
any air can enter, the hole is again soldered up, and the tins are 
then left to cool. Rabbits are never eaten in the southern parts 
of Chili, or on the islands of the Western coast, the Spaniards and 
Indians having as great a prejudice against their flesh as the 
Jews to pork. The negroes in the west Indies likewise reject 
rabbits, while they will eat almost any other kind of animal 
food; but the inhabitants of many islands in the Greek 
Archipelago live almost entirely on rabbit’s flesh. 
Sydney Smith, writing from Foston to Lady Grey, in November, 
1821, asked her, “‘ Pray, send me an account of yourself (recently 
convalescent) whether you have got out of sago, and tapioca, 
into rabbit, and boiled chicken. God send you may be speedily 
advanced to a mutton-chop.” Again, concerning his friend, 
Francis Jeffreys, (then being promoted to a judgeship), “his 
robes, God knows, will cost him but little, (he was a small man) ; 
one buck rabbit will clothe him to the heels.” Hood, in his 
whimsical way, has related an experience which he gained when 
abroad respecting this little rodent animal, and on which he has 
founded a lesson of manners :— 
“ But, pray remember this: that the French are so polite, 
No matter what you eat, and drink, ‘ whatever is, is right !’ 
So when you're told at dinner-time that some delicious stew 
Is cat instead of rabbit, you must answer, ‘ Tant mi-euz.” 
RADISH. (See Roots). 
RASPBERRY. (See Fruits). 
SEVERAL varieties of the Rubus ideus produce raspberries, a 
fruit much used for making jellies, jams, and a sweet vinegar, 
likewise for flavouring summer drinks, and fever potions. The 
Raspberry contains crystallizable fruit sugar, a fragrant volatile 
oil, pectin, citric, and malic acids, mineral salts, colouring matter, 
and water. Raspberry vinegar is an acid syrup made with the 
fruit-juice, sugar, and white wine vinegar. When added to water 
