438 lewis' AMERICAN SPORTSMAN. 



Savciges, whose cookery is in the rudest state, are more apt to 

 overeat themselves than the veriest Glutton of a luxurious and 

 refined people ; a fact which, of itself, is sufficient to prove that 

 it is not cookery which is the cause of gluttony and surfeiting. 

 The Savage, indeed, suffers less from his gluttony than the 

 sedentary and refined Gormand; for, after sleeping sometimes 

 for a whole day after gorging himself with food, hunger again 

 drives him forth to the chase, in which he soon gets rid of the 

 ill effects of his overloaded stomach. Surely, cookery is not to 

 blame for the effects of gluttony, indolence, and sedentary occu- 

 pations ; yet it (Joes appear that all its eflects are erroneously 

 charged to the account of the refined art of cookery." 



Although we may be willing to acknowledge ourselves in 

 some respects a Gormand^ still we do not think that our love of 

 the good things of this world could ever induce us, like Apicius, 

 to offer our guests a ragoCd composed exclusively of the tongues 

 of "Peacocks and Nightingales," or even of "Partridges and 

 Eeed Birds;" nor would we desire, like Vitellus, to serve up for 

 our brother, no matter how much beloved, a feast composed of 

 two thousand dishes of fish and seven thousand of poultry. 

 Neither is our taste so cultivated or refined as to hanker after 

 the delicate flesh of young asses, as served up on the festive 

 boards of the luxurious Romans, or relish the leg of a young 

 puppv, as greedily devoured by the curious inhabitants of the 

 Celestial Empire ; nor is our palate so distorted that we could 

 ever fancy, as some of our friends affect to do, the trail of a 

 roasted Woodcock, or the contents of a Snipe's stomach. 



Nevertheless, if put upon short allowance, we might be glad 

 to partake of any one of the above dishes, as well as rattlesnake- 

 soup, whale-blubber, and train-oil, without at the same time 

 meriting the ignoble stigma of a Glutton, as ^^necessitas nan halet 

 kgeyny 



What, my delicate reader, would you think of a man that 

 ate, at one meal, 



4 pounds of raw cow's udder, 

 10 " " raw beef, 

 2 " " tallow candles, 



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