And a
mighty different table it was from that to which we had sat down on the
preceding morning. Timothy--unscared by the wonder of the mountain
nymphs, who deemed a being of the masculine gender as an intruder,
scarce to be tolerated, on the mysteries of the culinary art--had
exerted his whole skill, and brought forth all the contents of his
canteen! We had a superb steak of the fattest venison, graced by
cranberries stewed with cayenne pepper, and sliced lemons. A pot of
excellent black tea, almost as strong as the cognac which flanked it; a
dish of beautiful fried perch, with cream as thick as porridge, our own
loaf sugar, and Teachman's new laid eggs, hot wheaten cakes, and hissing
rashers of right tender pork, furnished a breakfast forth that might
have vied successfully with those which called forth, in the Hebrides,
such raptures from the lexicographer.
Breakfast despatched--for which, to say the truth, Harry gave us but
little time--we mustered our array and started; Harry and Tom and I
making one party, with the spaniels--Garry, the Teachmans, and Timothy,
with the setters, which would hunt very willingly for him in Archer's
absence, forming a second.
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