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the wild dandelion ; or, in the shooting season, a German salad, 

 called in some parts of Germany, I believe, " kartofel salat" with 

 slices of cold boiled waxy potatoes. Either of these, with a few onions, 

 an anchovy, and two spoonsful of oil to every one of vinegar (or equal 

 quantities of each to the German one), make a very good salad; or, 

 at all events, a good substitute for one, where perhaps the lettuce, 

 cress, or endive, are scarcely known to the inhabitants. Tarragon 

 vinegar, for salads, is generally preferred to the other vinegar. (Let 

 me observe, by the way, that the chief art of dressing a salad consists 

 in wiping perfectly dry whatever it is made with, and cutting off 

 the flabby parts from the leaves of the herbs.) If you have no good 

 butter, for your fish, you will find, that with a little cayenne, a spoon- 

 ful of the liquor from your anchovies, and some lemon, or vinegar, 

 olive oil, and mustard, it will be perfectly good. Nothing is better 

 than a dish of small birds fried, and eat with oil and lemon juice ; 

 and if you have no good butter to fry them with, here again some oil 

 must be your substitute. 



If you have no biscuits to eat with your wine, or, what you may 

 drink for want of it, cut some slices of raw potatoe very thin ; have 

 them broiled, or fried, brown and crisp with your oil, and sprinkled 

 with a little Cayenne pepper; but, in dressing them, let the slices 

 lie independent of each other, or they will become soft by fermentation. 

 If you wish for a hash, or any thing dressed by way of variety from 

 plain cooking, you can always give it a flavour, if you have cayenne, 

 lemon, and anchovy. 



In short, the ingredients here named, as general ac- 

 quisitions to your eating in comfort, will be found, I 

 trust, some of the most useful ; and I therefore need add 

 no more, as I neither profess, nor wish, to gratify the 

 palate of an epicure ; but have merely attempted to 

 show, how one man could make himself comfortable, 

 where another would starve, by the foregoing hints to 

 young caterers and young sportsmen. 



Having now said enough as to taking care of, and 

 providing for, my young readers, we will suppose one of 

 them to have arrived at the miserable hole alluded to, 



