Books for you

At the very moment
that the squatter and his sons departed in the manner mentioned in the
preceding chapter, two men were intently occupied in a swale that lay
along the borders of a little run, just out of cannon-shot from the
encampment, discussing the merits of a savoury bison's hump, that had
been prepared for their palates with the utmost attention to the
particular merits of that description of food. The choice morsel had
been judiciously separated from the adjoining and less worthy parts of
the beast, and, enveloped in the hairy coating provided by nature, it
had duly undergone the heat of the customary subterraneous oven, and
was now laid before its proprietors in all the culinary glory of the
prairies. So far as richness, delicacy, and wildness of flavour, and
substantial nourishment were concerned, the viand might well have
claimed a decided superiority over the meretricious cookery and
laboured compounds of the most renowned artist; though the service of
the dainty was certainly achieved in a manner far from artificial.


Pages:
188 189 190 191 192 193 194 195 196 197 198 199 200 201 202 203 204 205 206 207 208 209 210 211 212