60 ANIMAL FOOD EESOUEOES OF DIFFERENT NATIONS. 



achievement recently effected in Berlin that its maximum 

 of toothsomeness can only be attained when the material 

 composing it is extracted from the carcass of a bear. At 

 an Exhibition of Culinary Art lately, at Hamburg, the 

 Berlin committee of restaurateurs, desiring to contribute 

 thereto an edible worthy of their gastronomic renown, 

 applied to Dr. Bodinus, the managing director of the 

 Zoological Gardens, for leave to purchase and slay one of 

 the Society's bears, in order to convert the ursine liver 

 into a sausage of paramount excellence. Having a bear 

 to spare, the learned doctor parted with one for the 

 moderate consideration of ten guineas, and the com- 

 mittee, twelve in number, proceeded to the doomed one's 

 den, where Herr Wiese, the proprietor of " Sommer's 

 Salon," shot Bruin through the head, and afterwards 

 narrowly escaped mutilation by venturing to stroke the 

 luckless beast's furry coat before it had quite given 

 up the ghost. The beast's liver was duly chopped up, 

 spiced, and manufactured into a gigantic sausage weigh- 

 ing twenty-five pounds ; and, his remains having been 

 artistically set up by a noted taxidermist, he was then 

 made to occupy an honourable and rampant position at 

 the chief entrance to the Hamburg Exhibition, support- 

 ing upon his fore-paws a silvern platter containing the 

 dainty comestible prepared from his own body.* 



In Sweden the State pays for the destruction of a bear 

 nearly £3, for a wolf or a lynx half as much, and for a 

 glutton 12s.; and this has greatly thinned them and 

 driven them off into the forests of Lapland and the 

 north. [See " Lloyd's Field Sports of North Europe."] 



Bears are fast passing away both in Northern Europe 

 and America. Many hundreds used to be killed in the 

 winter in some of the American States. The mode of 

 serving up the bear as a first course was, to roast it 

 whole, entrails, skin, and all, as one would barbecue a 

 hog. Most of the plantera preferred bears' flesh to all 

 other meat. Bears' paws were' long reckoned a great 



* Daily Telegraph, March 31, 1880. 



