Easily Arranged.
Bills of fare might be very easily arranged if everybody went about the matter in the sj stematic way described in the following anecdote.— A stranger was invited to "tak" a family dinner with a Scottish laird, at his country residence. _He accepted the invitation, and sat down with the laird, his wife and daughter. Ihere was a joint of roasted veal at the head of the table, stewed veal at the bottom, veal soup in the middle, calf's head on one side of the soup and veal cutlets on tho other, calf's foot jelly in ono dish, and calf's brains in another. "Noo," said the friendly host in his blunt way, " you may verra likely think this an odd kind of a dinner ; but yell no so much wonder when ye hear the cause of it. "We keep nae company, and my daughter here caters for the table Ihe way wo do is just this : we kill a benst, «s it were, to-day, and we just begin to cook it at one side of its head, travel down that side, turn the tail, and just gang back again by the other side to where we began."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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199Easily Arranged. Otago Witness, Issue 2105, 28 June 1894, Page 49
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