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I ha \v attainments useful and ornamental, but on this 

 occasion, under the inspiration of lumber, 1 developed a 

 talent for cookery, latent until then, which promises to 

 >erve me as p.od a turn in adversity as the trade which in 

 some parts of the old world every son of fortune is com- 

 pelled to learn. 1 dressed and broiled a trout on a twiu - , 

 before an open tire, in a manner which, the Editor said, 

 de.-crved a Special Notice alt hou^'li the para^rapher would 

 require a sample to b,- laid upon his table. The true edi- 

 torial instinct, however, led him to remark, in quite an 

 opposite spirit, as the last vestige of the broiled tish disap- 

 peared in the cook's mouth, that it was always your thin 

 men who 'at the most, and that Oliver Twist's cry for 

 more \\.i-e.\pre.-siveof their constant state of stomach. 

 The judicial mind, however, ruled that strict ri^ht wron-ed 

 no man. and that a thin man. under the present constitu- 

 tion, and the amendment- thereto, could not be coerced 

 into surrendcriii'j- any portion of his .r,nls without nn 

 equivalent, and then onh ' by virtue of the riuht of 

 eminent domain. He was pleased to add. aiso, to the urat 

 ification of all but the Kditor. that dead heading, in the 

 wilderness/^ //*/, ( with significant emphasis on the qual 

 ifyinir phrase ) was not to be countenanced, and if any 

 pel-son (and he looked hard at the Kdilor ) desired to cat 

 the fruits of another person's skill, without, his free con- 

 sent, it was simply an indication that the distiction of nn ///// 

 and fmiiii was not duly regarded in that person's mind ;- 

 but at this instant the irravity of the .lud.u'e broke down, 

 and we all joined in the lauirh which the Editor caused by 



-fill personation of the culprit receiving sentence. 



