360 FISHES AND FISHING. 



Some persons add cinnamon to the spices pre 

 viously mentioned, others dislike it. 



This sauce will be found superior to that of the 

 famed Hervey, who, more than fifty years ago, kept 

 an inn at Bedfont, commanding a view of the church 

 yard, where, it is said, the Rev. James Hervey, who 

 wrote "Meditations on the Tombs" was buried. 



Colman, in his "Random Readings," has the fol 

 lowing : 



" Hervey, whose Inn commands a view 

 Of Bedfont' s church and churchyard too, 

 "Where yew trees into peacocks shorn, 

 In vegetable torture mourn, 

 Is liable no doubt to glooms, 

 From ' Meditations on the Tombs :' 

 But while he meditates, he cooks ; 

 Thus both to quick and dead he looks ; 

 Burning his mind to nothing, save 

 Thoughts on man's gravy, and his grave. 

 Long may he keep from churchyard holes 

 Our bodies with his sauce for soles ! 

 Long may he hinder Death from beckoning 

 His guests to settle their last reckoning." 



Another, from an unknown hand, appeared more 

 recently in a periodical. 



" Two Herveys had a mutual wish 

 To shine in different stations ; 

 The one invented sauce for fish, 

 The other Meditations ! 



