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FRANK FORESTER’S FIELD SPORTS. 
The Rail is, as I observed before, capital eating. He is to be 
cooked and served exactly as the Snipe, with no sauce or condi 
ment whatever, but his own gravy caught upon a slice of crisp 
buttered toast, and a sprinkle of salt. Like all water-birds, he 
is to be eaten fresh , the sooner after killing the better ! Twenty- 
four hours dead, he is not only ancient, but fish-like. Red wine 
is the liquor wherein he should be laid at rest within the inner 
man, as unquiet ghosts in a red sea! Peace to him! He shall 
sit lightly on your stomach, even if partaken at a rere supper. 
A few words, hereafter, concerning wild-fowl shooting in 
upland brooks, or stalking them on inland lakes, or pools, and 
I have finished my task, in so much as relates to Upland shooting. 
