132 THE REV. J. G. WOOD. 



not know whether you talk for publicity or what but I can never 

 beleive for one moment that you have ever ate rat pie I noticed in 

 your address of the 20th ultmo about hundreds of people writing to 

 you to know how it is made that I believe is a confounded lie for 

 this last two Sunday Mornings I have almost been turned sick on 

 observing your lectures on the said Rat pie I think the lease you say 

 about the matter the better you are very fond of saying so much 

 about Rat pie will you please make this public the next time you 

 lecture that I the undersigned write in the name of hundreds of 

 people to protest against your assertions. All we eat now is not 

 pure so I think you ought not to want us to eat Vermin. 

 I am Sir 



A BELEIVER IN HUMAN FOOD. 



Please do not forget to make this public with all due respect 

 Yours truly 



A BELEIVER IN HUMAN FOOD. 



The comic papers, too, made much of the oppor- 

 tunity, and for three or four weeks were full of jokes, 

 poems, and illustrations, all bearing on the novel dainty. 

 One of the wittiest of these I give herewith, as for 

 some years my father had it printed, together with the 

 companion illustration, in the syllabus to his sketch 

 lectures. It originally appeared in Funny Folks : 



A DAINTY DISH. 



The Rev. J. G. Wood, M.A., in the course of a lecture, said there was 

 literally nothing of which he was so fond as a rat-pie." Daily Paper. 



On what they like and what they loathe 



Mankind are all divided, 

 And points of taste make woeful waste 



Of much for food provided. 



