484 CANNIBALISM. 



5 Turtles' heads, part of green fat and fins, . . . 34 8 o 

 24 Capons, the noix or nut, from the middle of the back 



only used, 880 



18 Turkeys, the same, 8 12 o 



1 8 Poulardes, the same, 5 17 o 



16 Fowls, the same, . . . . . . . . 2 18 o 



40 Woodcocks, the same, 800 



100 Snipes, the same, . . , 360 



3 Dozens of Pigeons, the same, . o 14 o 



43 Partridges, the same, . . . . . . .376 



10 Dozens of Larks, whole, 0150 



30 Pheasants 55 



6 Plovers . . . . 090 



3 Dozens of Quails, . *'.-. .. . .300 



Ortolans, 500 



The garniture, consisting of cocks' combs, truffles, mush- 

 rooms, crawfish, olives, American asparagus, cron- 

 stades, sweet-breads, quenelles de volatile and sauce, . 14 10 o 



Total, .... ^104 9 6 



N.B. " The way the cook accounts for the extravagance of this het- 

 erogeneous mass and mixture of food for man, is as follows : viz., that if 

 an epicure were to order this dish only, he (the cook) would be obliged to 

 provide the whole of the above-mentioned articles." 



Even so; but the cook has not told us how much of the ex- 

 pended money he recovered by selling (probably at prime cost) 

 those parts of the turtles and fowls, &c., which were not necessary 

 for his stupendous dish. But all comment here is absolutely useless. 

 I will merely remark, that, with the "garniture* alone, it would be 

 quite unimportant, whether the cook concocted his dish with the in- 

 gredients noticed above, or with the "noix" and flesh of hawks, 

 carrion crows, vultures, foumarts, snakes, and water-newts. Were I 

 to spend time in comments upon this display of modern extravagance 

 and vitiated appetite, I would say, zoologically speaking, that if our 

 well-known bird, the owl, sacred to Minerva, had been called upon 

 for an opinion, it would have gravely pronounced, that a fox must 

 have presided at the committee, a hyaena have been cook, and a stud 

 of asses the consumers of the dish in question. 



