How the Duke Hurt the Cook 's Feelings.
The Duke of Wellington once requested the connoisseur whom the author of "Tancred" terms " the finest judge in Europe " to provide him a chef. Felix, whom the late Lord Seaford was reluctantly about to- part with on economical grounds, was recommended and received. J Some months afterwards his patron was \ dining with Lord Seaford, and before the first j course was half over -he observed: -"So I find I you have got the Duke's cook to dress your dinner." "1 have got Felix," replied Lord S., but he is no longer the Duke's cook. The poor fellow came to me with tears in his eyes, and begged me to take him back again, at reduced wages or no wages at, all, for he was determined not to remain<at Ap^ley House. 'Has the Duke been finding fault?' said I. 'Oh, no, my lord ; I would stay if he had ; he is the kindest and most liberal of masters ; but 1 serve him a dinner that would make Ude or Francateli burst with envy, and he says nothing; I pco out and leave him to dine on a dinner badly dressed by the cookmaid, and he say nothing. Dat hurl my feelings, my lord.' "— "Hayward's Art of Dining."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2371, 10 August 1899, Page 62
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