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may be made from Sheep’s head, and from Sheep’s “ pluck” ; 
on account of which latter designation the concoction has been 
named heroic soup. A baked Sheep’s head is a “ Field Lane 
Duck.” A certain dining house at Rome was made notorious 
by the poet Horace, who contracted a severe fit of indigestion 
there by eating ‘“‘Sheep’s head,” which dish he studiously 
shunned always afterwards. Some humorous incidents about 
cooked Sheep’s head, or “jimmy,” are told in Kitchen Physic. 
“Alice” (in Through the Looking Glass) “found herself all of a 
sudden in a small, dark shop, leaning with her elbows on the 
counter; and opposite to her was an old Sheep sitting in an 
arm-chair, knitting, and every now and then leaving off to look 
at her through a great pair of spectacles. ‘ What is it you want 
to buy ?” said the Sheep at last, looking up for a moment from 
her knitting. ‘I don’t quite know yet,’ Alice said very gently ; 
‘I should like to look all round me first, if I might.’ ‘ You may 
look in front, and on both sides of you if you like,’ said the 
Sheep; ‘but you can’t look all round you unless you've got 
eyes at the back of your head.’” Mattieu Williams records, 
as an instance of educated appetite, and digestive capability, 
the case of a Sheep at a butcher’s in Jermyn Street, London, 
which animal was well known by following the butcher’s men 
through the streets like a dog. ‘‘ This Sheep was seen on several 
occasions to steal Mutton-chops, and to devour them raw, 
preferring these to grass, or to other meat (beef). The animal 
enjoyed robust health, and was by no means ferocious.” 
Tallow is the coarse fat of Sheep melted down, chiefly for 
making candles. Richard Boyle (1€96) has given, in his 
Collection of Medicines, a vulgar, but often approved, remedy 
for a cold, especially one that affects the breast: “* Take half a 
sheet, or a sheet, of brown paper, of as even a texture as you can 
get, and anoint it evenly, and very well with the oldest tallow, 
or candle grease, you can procure, so that the paper may be 
thoroughly penetrated by it; then cover it thinly with grated 
nutmeg (as you were to put the spice upon a toast), and clap it 
warm to the pit of the stomach that it may reach a good way 
both above it, and beneath it.” Another excellent old-fashioned 
application for a cold in the head, with stuffed nostrils, was to 
tallow the nose at night across the bridge thereot ; but this 
practice, together with the tallow candles, and the snuffers then 
in vogue to keep them from growing dim, and from guttering 
