Canvas -Back and Terrapin. 



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ance at a Maryland table, but when the bird is only an incident of 

 the dinner or supper, of course half a bird is sufficient for each 

 person. Slicing the bird is unheard of. The two-pronged fork is 

 inserted diagonally astride the breast-bone, and the knife lays half 

 of the bird on each side, leaving the "carcass " on the fork between. 

 The triangle of meat an inch thick comprised between the leg and 



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the wing, with its apex at the back and its base at the breast, is con- 

 sidered the most delicious morsel of meat that exists. The canvas- 

 back in Maryland is served with large hominy fried in cakes, celery, 

 and a dry champagne, or a bottle of Burgundy that is Burgundy. 



Terrapin, in the order of dishes, precedes the duck at the table. 

 In Baltimore, it is a great lenten dish, devout and wealthy Catholics 

 finding that it greatly facilitates the observance of the " regula- 

 tions." It is singular that it should appear to be exempt from the 

 church prohibition, for when on the table it would be hard to define 



a dish of nice, well boiled (and then fried) milk-whiti- hominy; and then, if it may so 

 happen, with Cadwalladcr's old ' butler ' at your elbow. If such fan- do DOl 



"'Raze out the written troubles of the brain,' 

 And dispose the partaker t<> hive his neighbor as bin. 

 And thank Providence for all its ho— HfB, 



>h, l>ear him to some distant shore, 



Some solitary cell, 

 Where none but savage monsters roar. 

 Where love ne'er deigns to dwell." 



[From "The Dog and the Sport— a," by J. S. Skinner, Philadelphia, 1845.] 



