292 FRANK forester's FIELD SPORTS. 



The Rail is, as I observed before, capital eating. He is to be 

 cooked and served exactly as the Snipe, with no sauce or condi- 

 ment whatever, but his own gravy caught upon a slice of crisp 

 buttered toast, and a sprinkle of salt. Like all water-birds, he 

 is to be eaten fresh, the sooner after killing the better ! Twenty- 

 four hours dead, he is not only ancient, but fish-like. Red wine 

 is the liquor wherein he should be laid at rest within the inner 

 man, as unquiet ghosts in a red sea ! Peace to him ! He shall 

 sit lightly on your stomach, even if partaken at a rere supper. 



A lew words, hereafter, concerning wild-fowl shooting in 

 upland bi'ooks, or stalking them on inland lakes, or pools, and 

 I have finished my task, in so much as relates to Upland shooting. 



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