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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
butter—a thin slice of crisp buttered toast should be laid under 
them while cooking, to catch the gravy and trail, if it chance to 
fall out; and this is to be served up under them, when dished 
for the table. Any made gravy or sauce is an abomination ; 
and the practice of blanketing the birds while roasting in slips 
of fat bacon should be held the death-warrant of any cook, in a 
well regulated family. A little salt, and bread quantum suff. 
may be eaten with him ; and a glass—or if you please bottle 
—of chambertin drank with him—but, as you live, eschew 
sauces, vegetables, or—small beer! 
More people, I believe, know better how to kill a Snipe 
secundum artem , than how to cook him decently , or eat him 
gracefully , when slain. It becomes the sportsman to shine in 
both capacities ; and, though myself I partake a little too much 
of the true Spaniel’s quality to care much about eating game, 
I should at least have him eaten, if eaten he must be, as a dish 
for gods, not as a carcase for hounds. 
