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CHAPTER
XI
"
Every
animal
but
one
keeps
to
one
dish."
The
Spectator.
Every
bachelor
Is
an
epicure
—
or
thinks
he
is.
According
to
time
and
season
and
environment,
the
single
man
who
has
dabbled
in
cooking
at
all
will
tell
you
that
he
has
"
the
best
thing
ever
"
—
then
promptly
proceeds
to
*'
show
you,"
as
though
you
w^ere
straight
from
St.
Louis.
Even
the
New
England
farmer
has
his
specialties,
which
are
apt,
in
summer,
to
include
a
famous
dish
of
pepper
grass,
lettuce,
and
mustard
leaves
tossed
together
with
salt,
pep-
per,
vinegar,
and
sugar,
as
a
salad
course;
and
from
*'
Reuben
"
up
to
the
Marquis
de
Dion,
with
his
suc-
culent
snails
or
"
Escargots
de
Bor-
deaux,"
he
runs
the
gamut
of
edibles.
The
cowboy
on
the
Western
plains
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