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WANTED— A NEW MEAT. 
The lack of variety in those meats which, whether 
flesh or fowl, must always form the ground-work and 
basis of an English bill-of-fare, is a want keenly felt, 
but most difficult to remedy. To judge from the list 
of fresh food which the improved transport of the last 
few years has made available for the London dinner- 
table, a natural inference would be that, so far as novelty 
has been studied, we had made provision, not for man 
as humanized by Schools of Cookery, but for a race of 
fruit-eating apes. We have a dozen new fruits, shad- 
docks, limes, custard-apples, bananas, pines, Italian 
figs, pomegranates, lichees, ground-nuts, gourds, water- 
melons, and avocado pears. But among the thousands 
of tons of foreign game imported yearly, there is 
hardly a beast or bird which may not be had in better 
quality and condition at home, except the prairie-bird 
and the quail ; for those canvas-backed ducks which 
escape the keen search of the New York dealers and 
find their way across the Atlantic, alight only on the 
tables of City Companies and millionaires, like the 
caladrus of old, that appeared only at the deaths of 
