To raise the dead, if they but snuff my dishes! —J. A. St. John.


Hegesippus. (Book vii. § 36, p. 455.)

A. I know it, my good friend, much has been said,

And many books been written, on the art

Of cookery; but tell me something new,

Something above the common, nor disturb

My brain with what I've heard so oft before.

B. Peace, and attend, you shall be satisfied—

For I have raised myself, by due degrees,