We had venison-steak, pork, ham, jerked venison stew, fresh trout, broiled partridge, cold roast duck, a fricassee of wood rabbits, and broiled pigeon upon our table, coming in courses, or piled up helter-skelter on great platters of birch bark, some on tin plates, and now and then a choice bit on a chip!

16.Swiss Steak.

Season a round steak with salt, black pepper and paprica; dredge with flour and let fry in hot lard on both sides until brown.

Chop and mince 1 pound of round steak, 1 onion and 2 sprigs of parsley.

And I'm going to fry us a little steak in this darling little skillet.

Not a word was said of the fire, but John kept serving him with large portions of the vegetables and the excellent and expensive steak which had been bought in his honor; and John's wife kept spurring him on.

"Give Merle another bit of the steak, Mother," urged Judge Penniman.

The Beef-Steak and October clubs are neither of them averse to eating and drinking, if we may form a judgment of them from their respective titles.

"How much is porterhouse steak?" she asked before she had the butcher cut any off.

"How much is round steak?" she inquired.

It did not look particularly tender and Migwan thought distressedly how her mother would complain when she found round steak instead of porterhouse.

"Isis there any way of making tough round steak tender?" she asked timidly, just a little ashamed to admit that they had to eat round steak.

"Isis there any way of making tough round steak tender?" she asked timidly, just a little ashamed to admit that they had to eat round steak.

Round steak prepared in this way is known in the restaurants as 'Dutch steak,' and commands a high price.

Round steak prepared in this way is known in the restaurants as 'Dutch steak,' and commands a high price.

" Considerably cheered by this last intelligence, Migwan sped home and got her prune dessert into the oven and then set to work transforming the tough steak into a tender morsel.

"Guess again," said Migwan gleefully; "it's round steak.

"I never got such round steak as this out here before.

" "And you never will, either," said Migwan, swelling with pride, "if you leave it to the butcher," and she told how she had treated the steak to produce the present result.

Mr. Whitelaw's notion of tea was a solid meal, which left him independent of the chances of supper, and yet open to do something in that way; in case any light kickshaw, such as liver and bacon, a boiled sheep's head, or a beef-steak pie, should present itself to his notice.

Marchmont's reasons for the selection were, first, that his client has never seen an old-fashioned London tavern, and second, that this is Wednesday and he, Marchmont, has a gluttonous affection for a really fine beef-steak pudding.

"I engaged this box," he continued, "so that we might be private if we wished to have a little preliminary chat; not that beef-steak pudding is a great help to conversation.

"Say how-de-do and be nice about it, or I'll see that your coffee is muddy and your bread burned and your steak absolutely impregnable; because I'm here to stay, mind you.

Ginger went straight off to bed, and the way he carried on when the landlady fried the steak afore bringing it up showed 'ow upset he was.

[Illustration: "The way he carried on when the landlady fried the steak showed 'ow upset he was."