less _the stomach_ be in good humour, every part of the machinery of
_life_ must vibrate with languor: can we then be too attentive to its
adjustment?!!

CULINARY CURIOSITIES.

The following specimen of the unaccountably whimsical harlequinade
of foreign kitchens is from "La Chapelle" Nouveau Cuisinier, Paris,
1748.

"A turkey," in the shape of "_football_," or "_a hedge-hog_." A
"shoulder of mutton," in the shape of a "_bee-hive_."--"Entree of
pigeons," in the form of a "_spider_," or _sun_-fashion, or "in the
form of a _frog_," or, in "the form of the _moon_."--Or, "to make
a pig taste like a wild boar;" take _a living pig_, and _let him_
swallow the following drink, viz. boil together in vinegar and
water, some rosemary, thyme, sweet basil, bay leaves, and sage;
when you have _let him_ swallow this, _immediately whip him to
death_, and roast him forthwith. How "to still a cocke for a weak
bodie that is consumed,--take a red cocke that is not too olde, and
beat him to death."--See THE BOOKE OF COOKRYE, very necessary for
all such as delight therein. Gathered by A. W., 1591, p. 12. How to
ROAST _a pound of_ BUTTER, curiously and well; and to _farce_ (the
culinary technical for _to stuff_) a boiled leg of lamb with red
herrings and garlic; with many other receipts of as high a relish,
and of as easy digestion as the _devil's venison_, i. e. a roasted
tiger stuffed with tenpenny nails, or the "_Bonne Bouche_," the
rareskin Rowskimowmowsky offered to Baron Munchausen, "a fricassee
of pistols, with gunpowder and alcohol sauce."--See the _Adventures
of Baron Munchausen_, 12mo. 1792, p. 200; and _the horrible but
authentic account of_ ARDESOIF, in MOUBRAY'S _Treatise on Poultry_,
8vo. 1816, p. 18.

But the most extraordinary of all the culinary receipts that have
been under my eye, is the following diabolically cruel directions
of Mizald, "_how to roast and eat a goose alive_." "Take a GOOSE or
a DUCK, or some such _lively creature_, (but a goose is best of all
for this purpose,) pull off all her feathers, only the head and
neck must be spared: then make a fire round about her, not too
close to her, that the smoke do not choke her, and that the fire
may not burn her too soon; nor too far off, that she may not escape
free: within the circle of the fire