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round the Governor's palace and demanded an inter- 

 view. He admitted four within, demanding what they 

 wanted. They replied " that the horse was the friend of 

 man — that religion protected his days — that they pTe- 

 ferred to die rather than feed on his flesh." 



De Vaudreuil cut short the interview saying, " That 

 should any of them again cause trouble, he would cast 

 them into prison and hang half of them." He then told 

 them to go to the slaughter house and ascertain for 

 themselves that the horses killed were in the same 

 good condition as the oxen slaughtered. 



This failed to satisfy them ; they returned home 

 uttering seditious remarks. The mob held that the Com- 

 missary, Cadet, gathered up all the broken down horses 

 in the country to have them converted into food, so 

 much so that a used-up plug was named a Cadet. This, 

 however, did not prevent the army from grumbling. 



An instance is mentioned of four troopers of the 

 B4am Eegiment having brought to the Chevalier de 

 Levis a mess of horse flesh, cooked in their style ; Levis 

 made the soldiers breakfast with him on a dish prepared 

 by his own cuisinier, and they declared their own pre- 

 ferable. He then handed them four livres, for them and 

 their comrades to drink his health. 



Then follows, in this curious series of letters, the 

 recipe given by the Eegiment La Reine for making 

 soup — by combining horse flesh with beef ; the boiled 

 beef to be eaten in the morning and the horse flesh to 

 be made in & fricassee for the evening meal. 



Eeserving for another article glimpses of Montcalm's 

 every day life in that boodling era, as disclosed in his 

 letters, now for the first time brought to light, and in 

 which the charming goddesses he worshipped in Parloir 

 street, Quebec, will be introduced, I shall close these 

 cursory notes of the learned Abbe's volumes by dwelling 

 on the more varied style of menu, which was in 

 modern times supplied to starved cities and garrisons. 

 Bismarck's white cuirassiers, in 1870, had reduced the 



