THE AKT OP COOKING GAME. 



•• God sends meat:" — wlio sends cooks? 

 \ 

 Nequaquam satis in re una consumere cnram : 



Ut si quis solfim 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 

 f 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 tlio convivial board with appetites made vigorous by 

 the manly laboi's 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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