CHAPTER XXIX. 



THE AET OF COOKING GAME 



" God sends meat:" who sends cooks? 



Nequaquam satis in re una consumere curam : 

 Ut si quis solum hoc, mala ne sint vina, laboret, 

 Quali perfundat pisces securus olivo." 



not imagine, brother sportsman, that we 

 are going to dive into all the mysteries and 

 complicated paraphernalia of a cookery- 

 book, or, as a scientific gourmand, that we 

 are about to extol alone the pleasures, the 

 delights, and the joys, of a well-spread 

 table. In extenuation, or rather in sup- 

 port, of our trifling efforts to promote the 

 happiness of our sporting friends when as- 

 sembled around the convivial board with appetites made vigorous by 

 the manly labors of the field, we beg to call their attention for a mo- 

 ment to the sage remarks of the philosophic Rumford when speaking 



on this subject : " The enjoyments which fall to the lot of the bulk 



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