CHINESE DELICACIES.
"You know what that is P” Ah Cum, the Chinese guide chuckles, pointing to a frying, frizzling mesa in an open pan, apparently cooking by the heat of the sun, but really heated by a round furnace built into the counter. We simper vaguely, but see nothing unusual. “That cat,” he goes on with a broad smile. Hanging round the shop front are the trussed bodies of other cats, and very funny they looh{ the white, naked bodies decked, like the poulterer’s pheasants at home, each with its furry tail—tabby, tortoiseshell, or black, —to say that here the veritable cat, and not the inferior rabbit, is for sale. For all that, very few cats are eaten, and this shop is shown as a curiosity, though here and there through the town we catch a glimpse of furry tails, or, more commonly, hairy ones, where the dog is being made useful after death.
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Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9092, 1 May 1890, Page 6
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154CHINESE DELICACIES. Lyttelton Times, Volume LXXIII, Issue 9092, 1 May 1890, Page 6
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