THE OYSTER. 



CHAPTEE I. 



THE OYSTER IN SEASON". 



The Rr. canon correct ; Alimentary Qualities of the Oyster ; 

 Profitable Investment ; Billingsgate, and London Con- 

 sumption ; English Oyster-beds ; Jersey Oysters ; French 

 Oyster-beds on the Coast of Brittany. 



~P THE Millions who live to eat 

 and eat to live in this wide 

 world of ours, how few are 

 there who do not, at proper 

 times and seasons, enjoy a 

 good oyster. It may not 

 be an ungrateful task, 

 therefore, if I endeavour 

 to inform them what spe- 

 cies of animal the little 

 succulent shell - fish is, 

 that affords to man so 

 much gastronomical en- 

 joyment — how born and 

 bred and nurtured ; when, 

 and where; and, lastly, how best it may be eaten, 

 whether in its living and natural state, or having 



