THE Sporting Magazine For JULY, 1794. Ancient and modern Method of market: where it must be owned ON DEER KILLING, N the commencement of the venifon season, one of the copper-plates which accompanies the prefent Number of our Magazine,is KILLING THE BUCK, and may not be unacceptable to our epicurean as well as Sporting readers. The old way of taking the deer was first by fhooting and wounding him, and then to let a couple of hounds pull the animal down; but modern expert parkkeepers generally take aim with fuch certainty, as to bring the buck to the ground- without the affiftance of the canine race; and this they are anxious of doing, in order to prevent the hounds tearing him, which spoils the beauty of the venifon in the London : it is brought in the utmost per. fection in proof, look but at the fhops near the manfion-house in the city, where venifon is fold; and particularly at Wright's, Charing Crofs; the last mentioned gentleman we would recommend to our town and country friends, as a man in whom the utmost honour and punctuality dwells, both in his business as a dealer in vevifon, as well as in the legal traffic of lottery tickets and fhares. When a deer is wounded, and not killed, he immediately makes. for his companions of the herd; but they, like faithlefs friends in human life, take every method to avoid him. On this fubject we fhall close the prefent article with an extract from Shakespeare. JACQUES. A a 184 Extract from Shakespeare's As You Like it. JACQUES moralizing on a wounded | Stood on the extremeft verge of the swift brook, Augmenting i with tears Duke Sen. Jaques? But what faid Did he fot moralize this fpe&tacle? 1 Lord. O yes, into a thoufand fimilies. Firft, for his weeping in the needlefs ftream; "Poor deer," quoth he, "thou mak'ft a teftament "As worldlings do, giving thy fum of more "To that which had too much:" Then being alone, Left and abandon'd of his velvet' friends; ""Tis right," quoth he, "thus mifery doth part "The flux of company:" Anon, a carelefs herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him, And never stays to greet him; "Ay," quoth Jaques, "Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens: * "'Tis just the fashion: Wherefore do you look "Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there ?” Thus moft invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, Indian Feaft of Dog's Flefb. To the EDITORS of the SPORTING GENTLEMEN, N your Magazine of May laft, you gave us an account of the 185 by way of luxury, not from any dog-eaters of Cafalnuovo, I ecce, I have fent you the above, (as a confirmation of what you have advanced of the existence of fuch a fet of beings as dog eaters) in order for your publication in your entertaining Magazine, if you fhall confider it worthy of insertion therein. The dishes being brought near me, I perceived that they confifted of dog's flesh; and 1 was informed that at all their public grand feafts they never made ufe of any other kind of food. For this purpose, at the feaft I am now fpeaking of, the new candidate provides fat dogs, if they can be procured at any price. In this cuftom of eating dog's flesh, they refemble the in habitants of fome of the coun tries that lie on the north-east borders of Afia." p. 278. After fpeaking of the ceremony attending their declarations of war, he says. This ceremony is followed by dances, fuch as I have before defcribed; and the whole concludes with a feast which usually confifts of dog's flesh. This feaft is held in the hut or tent of the chief warrior, to which all those who intend to accompany him in his expedition, fend their dishes to be filled." p. 394. Undoubtedly the practice of eating dog's flesh extends to many other parts of the globe; but it appears by Captain Carver, that the Naudoweffe Indians eat it W. H. To the EDITORS of the SPORTING GENTLEMEN. A LTHOUGH I have looked into Mrs. Piozzi's ingenious publication on British Synonomy, and do not find that Sportsmen and philofophers are the fame defcription of men; yet as I am induced to believe that many of the former are fond of good eating, and, of course, not totally deftitute of fome little knowledge of the culinary art, I beg leave to propofe to them the following queftion, through the medium of your valuable publication. In making a fruit pie, our housewives put a tea-cup within it, which, they fay, prevents the juice from being expelled by the heat, and accumulating it within its cavity: to account for this, I told Mrs. S. a few evenings ago, that the air contained in the cup is rarified by the heat, and con fequently the most of it efcapes the pie then cooling, condenfation follows. and the vacancy is filled by the juice of the fruit. But the rejected my opinion by obferving to me, that if the pie be cut when recently baken, hot from the oven, the "lufcious treasure" treafure" will, nevertheless, be found below the cup. Cruft is either short or flakeyMrs. B. (who certainly makes moft divine pies) when the wishes to conflitute her cruft of that leafy tenuity which is called flaky, effects it by the aid of an egg-Now, here I am more puzzled than ever. Perhaps the egg being beaten up with a fork, entangles the air, which becomes intimately diffufed, and is afterwards liberated by the heat; but as no operation of the rollingpin can obviate the laminated ftructure of cruft, after the evolution of the air it affumes a ftratified appearance. Thefe are the only theories I have to offer, and I wish that fome one deeply killed in these myfteries would affift me; for I pofitively declare that I have not eaten a bit of a pie of Mrs. S's. making fince I failed in my explanation. Socrates brought philofophy from Heaven to Earth. Addifon led her into the drawing room, and I wish to defcend with her into the kitchen. A NATIVE. who rewarded my turn of mind with a place the most agreeable in the world to my wishes; I mean that of huntsman. I have now trudged it on foot upwards of forty years, and am able to trudge on ftill with more activity than, perhaps, you may imagine, were you to judge from the prefent dimenfions of my carcafe, being no lefs in girth than three honeft yards. Thanks to my master's bountiful copper can of beer, which I fwallow every morning as regularly as I take my breathings. This makes me strong and lufty as an eagle; by the ftrength of this balfamic cup of canary, I preferve not only my breath, but many a ftout pufs for my good mafter or his friends. Indeed my merry beagles, (for I must be induiged in calling them mine) are fuch as England, perhaps, cannot produce their equals -not a humdrum or a backfli. der amongst them; for fuch`I immediately advance to the top of the first tree in my way, unless one of my brother ftaffs takes the trouble off my hands by accepting of the prefent. And if a bab. bler fhould happen to difconcert my harmony, no endeavours are To the Editors of the Sporting wanting to reclaim the imperti I Magazine. GENTLEMEN, AM the fon of honeft induftrious parents, who gave me fuch an education as their circumftances would allow, which jus ferved me to read and write intelligibly. When I had got thus far, inftead of purfuing the fmall advantages of my education. I grew inexpreffibly fond of a pack of harriers in the neighbourhood, and quitted all other profpects for the diverfion they afforded me; nor have I any reafon to be forry for my choice, as it recommended me to a very worthy and indulgent mafter, nent. When the lafh has failed, I've known caftration to have a very good effect on the male, but a female I pronounce incurable. By the exactness of my difcipline, I have brought my pack to excellent order. I have obferved fome excellent rules for the management of dogs in the letters of your eorrefpondent ACASTUS, which I think do great credit to the writer, as well as your Magazine. But experience makes perfect. (faye the old adage) Had you heard our charming mufic after a famous old hare, when we run as hard as we Anecdote of a General Officer. 187 an officer, though fhabby, that now and then, with great humility, begged the honour to be permitted going a filling with him, and had, by that means, picked up four or five; cn him the fufpicion fell, and it was propofed to fearch him firft, who defiring to be heard, declared, "I know the General well; yet he, nor all the powers upon earth, fhall subject me to a search while I have life to oppofe it. I declare, on the honour of a fol. dier, I know nothing of the fouffbox, and hope that will fatisfy the man doubting: follow me into the next room, where I will defend that honour, or perish !” we could lay legs to the ground, for two hours and a half, you must have thought yourself in Elyfium. Oh! what a delightful peal did they ring at her exit, 'till my worship's honour's arrival The conftant cuftom of my fenfible creatures! It was upon this occafion my inimitable Dowdy outdid her former outdoings: it was on this occafion I drank the copper can of fcut ale to the immortal memory of that ever memorable pufs, which had so often defeated my brother staffs and their crews, who must now one and all, green, blue and humdrum, fit ftill while I fing my lo triumphe.-Oh! Gentlemen, I really believe I fhould turn author, did I think that fuch-The eyes of all were now fubjects as 1 have now produced, would be univerfally read: but I fear they would be as little attended to as the writer; therefore I fhall beg leave to fubfcribe myself your admirer and conftant reader, turned on the General for an anfwer, who, clapping his hand eagerly down for his fword, felt the fnuff-box (fuppofed to have paffed round, and put there from habit) in a fecret fide pocket of his breeches, made for that pur pofe. It is hardly to be conceived the confufion that covered him on the occafion, that he had fo flightly given way to fufpidiftin. | cion. Remorfe, with TOM TRUDGE. ANECDOTE of a late GENERAL OFFICER. ALATE valuable and direat compaffion and tenderinsels of the there. a propensity to gaming, that he wounded character (because poor) It Why, General (returned the officer, being upon half pay, and friendless, I am obliged to hufbada |