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very long time, for any particular purpose, powdered 

 charcoal (for game, venison, or any thing) is the best 

 recipe that I have yet been able to procure. 



Keep your game in a safe, or a well secured larder, 

 to avoid flies : and to get rid of rats, you have only to 

 leave out, for their supper, a red herring, which you 

 must first split open, and then occasionally heat before 

 the fire, while you put over and into it about as much 

 corrosive sublimate of mercury as would lie on a half- 

 crown. The rats, when they have eaten of this, will 

 shortly afterwards adjourn to the water ; and, instead 

 of returning, there drink themselves to death. This is 

 a far more certain recipe to destroy rats than the mer- 

 curial ointment, which was before named in this work. 

 It may be worth while to observe also, en passant, that 

 the corrosive sublimate of mercury is a never failing 

 remedy to destroy bugs, if mixed with spirits of wine, 

 and well worked, with a paint brush, into the joints 

 and crevices of furniture. But you can never depend 

 on completely annihilating the breed of them, till you 

 do away with papering the walls of town bed-rooms. 



N. B. Be very careful how you handle, or where 

 you leave, this preparation, it being POISON. 



Q. What has this last recipe to do with sporting ? 



A. The citizens have been enlightening us country 

 shooters with a new system of instructions for killing 

 our game, and therefore the least that I can do in return 

 is to give them a short recipe for killing theirs. 



With regard to dressing birds there are so many 

 various methods, for which every cook or epicure has 

 his favourite receipt, that it would be absurd to enter 

 on the subject ; but, as so many fail in adapting their 

 sauces to wildfowl, I shall take the liberty of giving 



