An Ethiopian of old seeing an European eat bread, wondered, quomodo stercoribus vescentes viverimus, how we could eat such kind of meats: so much differed his countrymen from ours in diet, that as mine author infers, si quis illorum victum apud nos aemulari vellet; if any man should so feed with us, it would be all one to nourish, as Cicuta, Aconitum, or Hellebore itself.

" For a Frenchman in a state of siege horse-flesh is all rightthe French eat frogs, you know, and horses have frogs in their feet.

But I hope I may never look a lobster in the face again if he didn't swell all up, prance into the eat hut and say careless like over his shoulder to the waiter, 'A bottle of that Brut.'

Friday now tell them to live good, tell them pray God, tell them to eat corn bread, cattle flesh, milk, no eat man again.