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A Hunter's Toast. 



Carry a vial of olive oil or a small can of butter, some pepper 

 and salt mixed. An edible toadstool found, collect a few dry 

 twigs, fire them. Split a green stick at one end; put the toad- 

 stool in the cleft, hold it over the fire; oil or butter, season. Eat 

 from the stick. 



Dozens of more intricate ways of cooking mushrooms can be 

 fonnd in Mcllvaine's "One Thousand American Fungi" and in 

 Atkinson's "Mushrooms Edible, Poisonous etc.", but we have 

 endeavored to select the shortest and simplest recipes from both 

 works. 



