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Auckland Star, Volume I, Issue 119, 27 May 1870, Page 2

"Can you do all sorts of casting here?" ■ said a solemn-looking chap at the iron-work! il the other day. *' Yes, " said the clerk prepar- I ing to take an order, " all sorts." " Well, il then, " returned the solemn inquirer, "I 1 would like to have you cast a shadow." He J] was immediately cast out. A Canine Critic. The last number of | Bailey's contains an article on the* sayings and doings of the month, containing h such a compliment to Sir Francis Grant aa an | artist that it is worth while extracting. A'lu- I ding to the picture of Captain Thompson, I which is about to be presented to him at North- ■ ampton, the writer says that the likeness. || of Captain Thompson is a speaking one, whil* 0 every hound is a study, and could not be sup I passed even by Sir Edwin Landseer; and that I he has been told that when a couple of hounds I had been brought up from tbe kennels nil Brixworth to Sir Francis's studio in the Be- j gene's Park, one of them, old Governess, jum-1 ped straight at the canvas, thinking of course, F that it was her old master. Surely since tM days of Apelles there has never baemuca criticism. . Game Pudding.—An ordinary Puddi°jj basin is to be lined throughout with «>» . pudding paste, in a rather thin layer. Ibe jj contents of the pudding are two teal, snipe, | or any of our game birds, about a pound ot I tender rump, or preferable fillet steak, with- I out fat, few small slices of lean bwson. » 1. soupcon of shallow, a mixture of pepper, salt, I and flour (iv which the meat is rolled), «na. I a little plain beef gravy; the lid is theD to W § put on, the clean white cloth tied over, ana | the pudding boiled as usual.