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...Field's recipe: "I cut the chicken up in usual pieces and stew it slowly in water until it's tender. I season it well with salt, pepper and a little paprika. I add one onion, one potato, one turnip, one pound of cabbage, one half pound of carrots and two ounces of rice. Then I cook it for another hour or so, adding 1 more or less water. Generally I pick the chicken off the bones and break it up before adding the vegetables, so it will be mixed all through...
...imported some Greek leeches, and they were very good too, but somehow I could not feel at home with them. . . . The leech is an epicure. If he is not hungry you put a little sugar water on the skin to coax him. To make him let go you put salt water. . . . He is also a social barometer. If Prohibition was a success, then there would be less drunks, less black eyes, less demand for leeches. But no, the leech business is good. . . . You drive an old horse into the water. When he comes out he is covered with leeches...
THOSE who have read the "The John Riddell Murder Case," "Salt Water Taffy," or the barbed shafts in Vanity Fair will find this book the most amusing thing John Riddell has yet done; those who have not yet become acquainted with his inimitable parodies could find no better introduction. Not a moment of it is dull. In a few words it makes the most honored of our gods ridiculous...
Having today seen Singer's midgets at a Salt Lake City theatre, I made the observation in a letter to a friend of mine that I imagined most midgets must be sexually impotent or sterile, judging from their physical development and the squeakiness of their voices...
...those who are wont to season the morning's meal with the Attic salt of the Vagabond brace themselves for a more pungent spice today. For this morning the Vagabond is not Touchstone but Hamlet; the cap and bells are put away, and sables are the wear. A great man is passing from our midst: at nine o'clock this morning in New Lecture Hall, Professor C. K. Webster is delivering his last lecture before leaving Harvard College, and the Vagabond would give him homage and Godspeed...