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the strongest hare, in this manner, seldom 

 standing twenty minutes : but my friend says, 

 a hare is good eating, and he therefore thinks 

 he cannot kill too many of them. By what 

 Martial says, I suppose he was of the same 

 opinion : 



" Inter quadrupedes gloria prima lepus." 



A-propos to the eating of them. — I must tell 

 you, that in the Encyclopedie, a book of uni> 

 versal knowledge, where, of course, I expected 

 to find something on hunting which might be 

 of service to you, as a sportsman, to know, I 

 found the following advice about the dressing 

 of a hare, which may be of use to your cook ; 

 and the regard I have for your health will not 

 suffer me to conceal it from you. — " On mange 

 le levraut roti dans quelques provinces du 

 Toyaume, en Gascogne et en Languedoc par 

 exemple, avec une sauce coinposee de vinaigre 

 et de Sucre, qui est mauvaise, mal-saine en soi 

 essentiellement, mais qui est surtout abomina- 

 ble pour tous ceux qui rCy sont pas accou- 

 tumes.'''' You, without doubt, therefore, will 

 think yourself obliged to the authors of the 

 Encyclopedie for their kind and friendly in- 

 formation. 



