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Timo was when Mexican cattle rustlers swarmed across the Rio Grande into Texas to steal eattle. Now there's a new kind of chief-the colton rusiler. Above are armed guards on the Ben Ivey farm, 40 miles from El Paso, who protect a pleker as he unloads his sack into the wagon. This picture was taken about 100 yards from the Rio Grande river.
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ONE of our
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uneven wrote a poem on a haunch of venison. The gastronomic perform- ances of his friend and contemporary, Dr. Sumuel Johnson, are notorious, and his punishment of a leg of veal
lic worker. Jiterary dous
And best-known men hus recorded his first sight oppetite to correspond.
A pathetic story is told of Char- of the poet Algenon Charles Swin- burne. That sweet singer was in a lotte Bronte meeting Thackeray, who restaurant, seated before a huge pile was to her a demigod, for the first of asparagus, His deep and earnest time at a dinner-party. She watched concentration on the task of getting with sorrowful amazement the in- with prune sauce has been described mense inroads which her idol innde through the dish was a sight to see.
Other observers have borne test-n the food, and just as he was about in memoirs of the period. We are
"Oh, 'breathed, mony that when Swinburne was to engulf another big forkful, she in- given to understand that the doctor in middle life gave up his bottle of wine, fearing that he was getting too engaged with his food he could spare voluntarily none of his time or attention for Thackeray, don't
attached to it--which is all to his conversation or anything else.
credit.
A Very Old Friend”
Mr.
Which reminds us that there were
His thirst was equal to his appetite:
There Is another well-mithenticated and indeed at one time his devollon to alcohol bid fair to have serious anecdote of the great novelist, He
It was his friend and was engaged to dine with a very im- three great contemporaries--a philan= consequences.
portant personage, when he heard thropist, a stateaman, and a pool- companion and guardian, Theodors Watts-Dunton, who remarked with that e favourite dish, broad beans and who made it a habit to drink a bottle Katisfaction that he had got Algernon bacon, was on the dinner-menu at of good old port every night of their from brandy to port, and from port his club, the Reform. He could not lives. They were Sir Moses Monte- resist it. He sent a message to his flore, W. E. Gladstone, and Alfred to beer.
In anybody thinks that poets,
a puny trencherman, either. "I like "a very old friend" and could literary men generaly, are ethereal spectant host to say that he had Tennyson. The bard was not at all Was the creatures who care little or nothing not tear inalt away. Then he my mutton cut in chunks," for solid sustenance he (or she) had made a solitary and very hearty meal only remark he vouchsafed to his
dinner-neighbour on better think again. Naturalists have of beans and bacon.
recall inemorable occasion. not noticed that the song-birds of our
outburst its woods and gardens are always eating when they are not warbling; and much the same thing applies to human
songsters.
And
Dante Gabriel Rossetti wrote the most beautiful love-lyrics, some of j
for ever: but he which will live restored the depleted system with i
It is recorded most enormous meals. that he would make a light breakfast off half-a-dozen eggs and a like sum- ber of rashers of bacon, Ills other reflections were in proportion. Literary Work Exchausting
Inet
Thien
who cioes
Thackeray's poetical praise of roast mutton? The poet- novelist said:-
"A good leg of mutton, my Lucy, I rithes have ready at 3. itave it tender and smoking and
julcy,
And what better meat can there
be? Another big man and great novelist was Alexandre Dumas, and he, too, was a redoubtable trencherman, he sides fancying himself as a cook. It was said that he could make, and dis pose of, un omelette comprising a dozen eggs, and that to him a whole. fowl Was A mere snack.
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