COOKERY.— THE EDITOE OTEinVHELMED. 143 



I have attaiuments useful and oruamental, but on x\n< 

 occasion, under the inspiration of hunger, I developed a 

 talent for cookery, latent until then, which promises to 

 serve me as good a turn in adversity as the trade which in 

 some parts of the old world e\'ery son of fortune is com- 

 pelled to learn. I dressed and Inoiled a trout on a twig, 

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

 deserved a Special Notice— although the paragrapher 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 cooks mouth, that it was always youi' thin 

 men Avho eat the most, and that Oliver Twisf. cry for 

 - more" was expressive of their constant state of stomach. 

 The judicial mind, however, ruled that strict right wronged 

 no man, aud that a thin man, under the present constitu- 

 tion, and the amendments thereto, could not be coerced 

 into surrei^idering any portion of his goods-without an 

 equivalent, and then only by virtue of the right of 

 eminent domain. He was pleased to add, also, to the grat- 

 ification of all but the Editor, that dead-heading, in the 

 wilderness at least, (with significant emphasis on the qual- 

 ifying phrase) was not to be countenanced, aud if any 

 persoii (and he looked hard at the Editor ) desired to eat 

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

 sent, it was simply an indication that the distiction of me^nv 

 ^n,\tn>nn was not duly regarded in that person's miud;- 

 but at this instant the gravity of the Judge broke down, 

 aud we all joined in the laugh which the Editor caused by 

 his successful per.sonation of the culprit receiving sentence. 



