356 MEN 1 HAVE FISHED WITH. 



MENU. 

 Soup de snapping turtle. 



Coutlettes de snapper, braisee. 

 POISSON. 

 Brook pike au naturel. Pommes de terre. 



RELEVE. 



Roast coon, entire. Motto: "Whole hog or none." 

 Sweet potatoes. 



ENTREES. 



Grouse au Port Tyler. 



ENTREMETS. 



Mat Miller's cheese. 

 Punch. 



As master of ceremonies, General Miller took his 

 share of the good things without flinching, and destroyed 

 a goodly portion of the succulent 'coon, and wrecked a 

 grouse so that no anatomist could have identified the 

 remnants; and when the punch came on he arose and re- 

 marked: "There doesn't seem much to be said after this 

 grand gorge that our host has got up in honor of the 

 wayward youth who went to the great West with 'Excel- 

 sior' as his motto, and has returned like the Biblical hero 

 from herding with swine to the paternal mansion, with- 

 out the motto on the linen which fluttered in the rear, 

 and looked for all the world like a letter in the post- 

 office/ As he is a Shakespearean scholar, I can say to you 

 in the words of the melancholy Jaques: 'Bid him wel- 

 come. This is the motley-minded gentleman that I have 

 so often met in the forest.' Let us pledge, standing: The 

 return of the calf I mean the return of the prodigal." 



Tobi turned his off eye in my direction, and Low 

 Dearstyne nudged me to get up. Never had I spoken 

 at a dinner in a formal manner. Miller's quotation from 

 "As You Like It" suggested another saying of Jaque's, 



