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increase the cake to at least 4 lb. a day, and give a feed 

 of bruised oats or barley, whicli I continue up to the 

 12th or 14th of December, when they leave for the 

 Christmas market." '' It is ahsolutely necessary to in- 

 crease the quantity of cake and corn weekly to ensure a 

 steady improvement; and if cattle are forced upon cake 

 and corn over two or three months, it will, in my opinion, 

 pay no one." 



For the introduction of these extracts I make no 

 apology. I have found the volume. Cattle and Cattle 

 Breeders, most interesting and serviceable. I will only 

 add that I have no personal knowledge whatever of Mr. 

 M'Combie, although he is doubtless well known to most 

 agriculturists through the lovely level black-polled heifers 

 he has shown, no less than by the huge bullock, which was 

 the wonder of London at a comparatively recent fat show. 



Having hastily chewed a pickled onion and swallowed 

 a single glass of sherry, I hastened back to my work. 

 Reader, if ever you have scant time for luncheon on a 

 cold day, adopt the above recipe and you will thank its 

 author for it. While it temporarily but effectually 

 allays your hunger, you will find it warm your system 

 through. I remember many years ago attending, 

 amidst an awful throng, a midnight service in a Church 

 at Rome. At the very moment, when between the 

 stifling heat and the inhuman pressure one felt com- 

 pletely done, in nasal accents from the long throat of a 

 distinguished Yankee, who occupied the post of rear- 

 guard to me, there came the inquiry, " Guess you'd like 

 a cup of tea?" There is no denying that I imme- 

 diately assented, without dread of possible assassination 

 from one whose bony frame must have found a grateful 

 relief in having so well-cushioned a person to lean 



