WITH CLAMS
"Fruit of the wave, all dainty and delicious."--_Croffut._
"If you can"t speak, sing; if you can"t sing, imitate the clam."--_Six Dinners._
SOUP--CONSOMME AND MOCK TURTLE
"Of two evils, choose the least."--_Thomas A. Kempis._
"It"s the rules of the house, sir; you must take soup."--_Mark L. Demotte._
FISH
""Tis sweet and fresh--"twas caught this night."--_Beaumont & Fletcher._
"Now bring along your liars, and let the biggest one take the cake."--_Six Dinners._
TERRAPIN
"A dish that I do love to feed upon."--_Shakespeare._
LOBSTERS
"On eight long feet these wondrous warriors tread And either end alike supplies the head."
--_Homer._
SHRIMPS
"Old Ocean, envious of my ladies crimps, Tried hard to copy them, and--presto! Shrimps!"
--_Six Dinners._
FOR ENTRIES OF VARIOUS KINDS
"Take every creature in of every kind."--_Pope._
"When I have tasted of this sacred dish, then shall my bones rest in my father"s tomb in peace."--_Beaumont & Fletcher._
"Not to know me argues yourselves unknown."--_Milton._
FOR A SPECIAL OR NOVEL DISH
"It"s better to be out of the world than out of the fashion."--_Swift._
FROG"S LEGS
"We sport in water or we dance on land."--_Homer._
"Though this be fun for you, "Tis death to us."--_Fables._
LAMB
"Pray you, who does the wolf love?"--_Shakespeare._
"Ah, gentle lamb! "Tis better that you be roasted and served to sympathizing human folk than be devoured ungracefully by ravenous beasts."--_Six Dinners._
ROAST PIG
"See him in the dish, his second cradle!"--_Charles Lamb._
"He hath a fair sepulchre in the grateful stomach of the judicious epicure, and for such a tomb might be content to die."--_Charles Lamb._
CHICKENS
"We"ll not eat crow, but him that crow"d."--_Anon._
TURKEY
"Nothing in his life Became him like the leaving of it."--_Macbeth._
GOOSE
"What"s sauce for the goose Is sauce for the gander."--_Old Rhymes._
SUCCOTASH
"These be the great twin brethren."--_Macauley._
MACARONI
"Some Jay of Italy."--_Cymbeline._
ONIONS
"So near will I be that your best friends shall wish I had been further."--_Julius Caesar._
GREEN PEAS
"How green you are and fresh."--_King John._
GAME
"Here"s a pigeon so finely roasted it cries, "Come eat me.""--_Swift._
SALAD
"I warrant there is vinegar and pepper in"t."--_Twelfth Night._