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VIDOE. 
wheat-flour, flat, and roasted in a mould, which 
forms a number of squares on the top, succeeded 
the mutton. They were not more than half 1 
inch thick, and about the size of an octavo book. 
The Stiftsamptman said he would be satisfied if 
each of us would eat two of them, and, whh 
these moderate terms we were forced to cos 
For bread, Norway biscuit and loaves m of 
rye, were served up; for our drink, we had 
nothing but claret, of which we were all com¬ 
pelled to empty the bottle that stood by us, and 
this, too, out of tumblers, rather than wine glasses. 
It is not the custom in this country to sit after 
dinner over the wine, but we had, instead of it, 
to drink just as much coffee as the Stiftsamptman 
thought proper to give us. The coffee was cer¬ 
tainly extremely good, and, we trusted it would 
terminate the feast. But all was not yet over; for 
a huge bowl of rum punch was brought in, and 
handed round in large glasses pretty freely, and 
to every glass a toast was given. If at any time 
we flagged in drinking, “ Baron Banks” was al¬ 
ways the signal for emptying our glasses, in order 
that we might have them filled with bumpers, to 
drink to his health; a task that no Englishman 
ought to hesitate about complying with most 
gladly, though assuredly, if any exception might 
be made to such a rule, it would be in an in¬ 
stance like the present. We were threatened 
