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then resume the show bisnis. which hebin into twenty-two ven s and six « •m until s.Griswold as a Hasiieisk K —Griswold, the “Fat Contributor relates in one of Lis letters hi' cxj t.. n o as a hasheesh eat«r. 1v ... :.averead Bavard Tavlor or Fitiiiumh Lud-* •low on the subject. will read it with infinite satisfaction. It is a- F ik-v. s: “All at once the scene changed. From the fiercest torment- and most horrible agonies 1 was suddenly plungedinto seas of bliss. 1 found mv?i If fi tat-♦ing in a sea of brown gravv, which wasc » * 'dotted with islands composed of bv.iud turkev and a /a mode beef. French rolls floated along in the gravy, warm from the oven, and dashed helter-sF Iter down niv throat, the onlv natural• •species of bread and sop that I ever heard of. Patridgcs on t a-t, with quail in the same delightful spread-eagle style, danced along the ripohnglt; H *■ * - 4 4j gravy like nautiluses on a spree, sails made of the thinest and most d*-light-■ fully seasoned omh ttes. hot and Foiling. | Potatoes bobbed along in pyramid-, while turkey wings moved on savory pinions to my capacious mouth. I climbed gleefully the island of bone I turkey, and then trod with a light heart colonades of bologna sausage, and alonga m Bj lanes of porter-house steak. Fountains adorned the parterres, from wlncli squirted cabinet pudding (both kinds of sauce) and A1 sop’s pale ale. Conservatories, the roots of which were clt; m-posed of Welsh rare-bits, were filled with the rarest puddings, while the lawns absolutely crawled with lobsters, who were busy chopping each other into salad. Fried oysters hung in clusters from every bough, rivulets of turtle* csoup ran in every direction, irrigatingthe foundation of turkey underneath.I rioted in fields of grass, every bladeof which bore a dozen shrimps, ami inbowers where every twig was ladt nwith ham sandwiches, mustard flowingnaturally from cverv shrub. I rolled * *over in ovster beds, all fat and luscious,» 7each one of w hich held up his head and begged the privilege of being swallowed. I threw handsprings in meadows of mushrooms, w ith stuffed hare runningabout, ready browned, with lemons in their mouths, entreating the pleasure ofmv teeth in their toothsome carcasses.wThe trees bore eggs on toast, and ti o heavens rained pop corn and peanuts.^Young ladies are often a-ke 1 why they blush sc when spoken to about
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Oroville Weekly Union Record
Oroville, California, US
Sat, Oct 07, 1865
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