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more good things generally. There is a sort of refined barbarism 

 about such a menu as that of a plain winter dinner in Maryland 

 that would doubtless vex Mr. Felix Deliee and his confreres of 

 that august fraternity, the cordons blcus of New York. Here it is, 

 without any of the "illusions" in which a French artist would so 

 like to enshroud it : " Four small oysters from Lynhaven Bay (once 

 opened, they would never again be inclosed in the self-same shell) ; 

 terrapin a la Maryland ; canvas-back ducks ; a small salad of crab 

 and lettuce. Vegetables: — baked Irish potatoes; fried hominy 

 cakes, and plain celery." If this shall have been attended by 

 adventitious circumstances, it will put the artificialities of refined 

 cookery of the exalted order entirely to the blush. 



TERRAPIN FOR THREE. 



