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On our appearance he commenced rooting in a heap of em- 

 bers, and soon produced six nondescript looking articles enclosed 

 as they dress maintenon cutlets or red mullet in double 

 sheets of greasy letter paper these he incontinently dished, and 

 to my. huge astonishment they turned out to be three couple 

 of our woodcock, which that indefatigable varlet had picked, 

 and baked under the ashes, according to some strange idea, 

 whether original, or borrowed at second hand from his master, 

 I never was enabled to ascertain. 



The man, be he whom he may, who invented that plat, is 

 second neither to Caramel nor to Ude the exquisite juicy ten- 

 derness of the meat, the preservation of the gravy, the richness 

 of the trailr by heaven! they were inimitable. 



In that sweet spot we loitered a full hour then counted our 

 bag^ which amounted already to fifty-nine cock, not including 

 those with which Tim's gastronomic art had spread for us a 

 table in the wilderness then leaving him to pack up and meet 

 us at the spot where we first started, we struck down the stream 

 homeward, shooting our way along a strip of coppice about ten 

 yards in breadth, bounded on one side by a dry bare bank of the 

 river, and on the other by the open meadows. We of course 

 kept the verges of this covert, our dogs working down the mid- 

 dle, and so well did we manage it, that when we reached the 

 wagon, just as the sun was setting, we numbered a hundred and 

 twenty-five birds bagged, besides two which were so cut by the 

 shot as to be useless, six which we had devoured, and four or 

 five which we lost in spite of the excellence of our retrievers. 

 When we got home again, although the Dutchman was on the 

 spot, promising us a quarter race upon the morrow, and press- 

 ing earnestly for a rubber to-night, we were too much used up 

 to think of anything but a good supper and an early bed. 





