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THE PAMPAS. 



two or three turns in the air, to my horror and 

 litter astonishment, she instantly put the fowl into 

 the pot, feathers and ail ; and although I had 

 resolved to rough it on my journey, yet I posi- 

 tively could not make up my mind to drink such 

 broth or " potage au natureF' as I thought she was 

 preparing for me. I ran to her, and, in very bad 

 Spanish, loudly protested against her cookery; 

 however, she quietly explained to me that she had 

 only put the fowl there to scald it, and as soon as I 

 let go her arm she took it out. The feathers all 

 came off together, but they stuck to her fingers 

 almost as fast as they had before to the fowl. 

 After washing her hands^ she took a knife, and very 

 neatly cut off the wings, the two legs, the breast 

 and the back, which she put one after another into 

 a small pot with some beef suet and water, and the 

 rest of the fowl she threw away , 



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