168 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



butter — a thin slice of crisp buttered toast should be laid under 

 them while cooking, to catch the gravy and trail, if it chance to 

 fall out ; and this is to be served up under them, when dished 

 for the table. Any made gravy or sauce is an abomination; 

 and the practice of blanketing the birds while roasting in slips 

 of fat bacon should be held the death-wan-ant of any cook, in a 

 well regulated family. A little salt, and bread quantum stiff. 

 may be eaten with him ; and a glass — or if you please bottle 

 — of chambertin drank with him — but, as you live, eschew 

 sauces, vegetables, or — small beer ! 



More people, I believe, know better how to kill a Snipe 

 secundum artem, than how to cook him decently, or eat him 

 gracefully, when slain. It becomes the sportsman to shine in 

 both capacities ; and, though myself I partake a little too much 

 of the true Spaniel's quality to care much about eating game, 

 I should at least have him eaten, if eaten he must be, as a dish 

 for gods, not as a carcase for hounds. 



