your garnish, and serve in a napkin. A few tea-leaves
sprinkled over, will make it look more inviting. If anybody comes into
the kitchen while the stew-pan is on the fire, put it under the table.

_Methuselah Fritters._

Have some castor-oil boiling, slice three large heads of mangel-wurzel,
and put them in your castor-oil till quite crisp. Try them with your
finger. If done enough they will burn you. Add three oysters, a nutmeg,
a teacupful of brown sugar, and a capsicum. If more flavour is wanted,
you may add a tablespoonful of Bath brick. Serve up hot on a gridiron.
If for a second course, tripe may be substituted for the mangel-wurzel,
but oil of vitriol is preferable.

_Croquettes a la Conolly._

Steal a marrow-bone from which the marrow has been taken out, and burn
it till charred. Then scrape it into a butter-boat, with two spring
onions minced, an oyster-shell, and a quarter of a pound of dry glue.
Put up in shapes, and let it stand till it is mouldy. Have some treacle
cold, and when it boils, dip your croquettes in it one after another,
and serve up in the middle of next week. If made with marine glue they
require more care, but will eat all the crisper. The yolks of two
shop-eggs may be added, but this is a matter of taste, and unless the
eggs are very stale they will give your croquettes too nutty a flavour.
Some roll the croquettes in the ashes, but this is not to be
recommended, unless where there are foreigners at table and a man
servant is kept.

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SERJEANT ADAMS ON A KNOTTY POINT.

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MR. SERJEANT ADAMS occasionally makes sensible remarks. In the course of
the other day, for instance, alluding to some misrepresentation of his
opinions on the system of flogging, which had got abroad, he is reported
to have said that

"He had for years watched the progress of that system, and had had
ample opportunities of doing so, on account of so many children
tried before him; and he had so frequently found that the
commencement of a child's criminal history was with three days'
imprisonment and a whipping, and after that beginning the child so
constantly came back to this court, that his mind quite revolted
from passing a sentence involving whipping at all."

"Give a young thief a whipping, and have done with him," is a very
common prescription of Common Sense for the cure of juvenile
delinquency. Common Sense, however, some