For a man seldom thinks with more earnestness of anything than he does of his dinner. b. SAM'L JOHNSON-Piozzi's Anecdotes of Johnson.

For I look upon it, that he who does not mind his belly will hardly mind anything else.

C. SAM'L JOHNSON-Boswell's Life of

Johnson. Digestive cheese, and fruit there sure will be. d. BEN JONSON-Epigram CI.

Yet shall you have to rectify your palate,
An olive, capers, or some better salad
Ushering the mutton; with a short-legged

h.

CHARLES LAMB-Autobiographical
Recollections, by Chas. R. Leslie.

Your supper is like the Hidalgo's dinner; very little meat, and a great deal of tablecloth. i.

LONGFELLOW-The Spanish Student.
Act I. Sc. 4.
Oh, better no doubt is a dinner of herbs,
When season'd by love, which no rancour
disturbs

And sweeten'd by all that is sweetest in life
Than turbot, bisque, ortolans, eaten in strife!
But if, out of humour, and hungry, alone
A man should sit down to dinner, each one
Of the dishes of which the cook chooses to
spoil

With a horrible mixture of garlic and oil,
The chances are ten against one, I must own,
He gets up as ill-tempered as when he sat
down.

O hour, of all hours, the most bless'd upon earth,

The blesséd hour of our dinners!

k. OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)Lucile. Pt. I. Canto II. St. 23.

We may live without poetry, music and art; We may live without conscience, and live without heart;

We may live without friends; we may live without books;

But civilized man cannot live without cooks. He may live without books,-what is knowledge but grieving?

He may live without hope,-what is hope but deceiving?

He may live without love,-what is passion but pining?

But where is the man that can live without dining?

1.

OWEN MEREDITH (Lord Lytton)—

Lucile. Pt. I. Canto II. St. 24.

Their best and most wholesome feeding is upon one dish and no more and the same plaine and simple: for surely this hudling of many meats one upon another of divers tastes is pestiferous. But sundrie sauces are more dangerous than that.

m. PLINY-Natural History. Bk. XI. Ch. LIII. Holland's trans.

Ep. VII. L. 24. And men sit down to that nourishment which is called supper.

"Very astonishing indeed! strange thing!" (Turning the Dumpling round, rejoined the King),

"'Tis most extraordinary, then, all this is; It beats Penetti's conjuring all to pieces; Strange I should never of a Dumpling dream! But, Goody, tell me where, where, where's the Seam?"

"Sire, there's no Seam," quoth she; "I never knew

That folks did Apple-Dumplings sew." "No!" cried the staring Monarch with a grin; "How, how the devil got the Apple in?" JOHN WOLCOTT (Peter Pindar)- The Apple Dumplings and a King.

a.

9.

LONGFELLOW-Evangeline. Pt. II.

L. 56.

ECONOMY.

Sweetest Echo, sweetest nymph, that liv'st

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying out.