The Adventures of Mr Ledbury And His Friend Jack Johnson volume 1
The Adventures of Mr Ledbury And His Friend Jack Johnson volume 1
Elbert a Smith
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Ledbury, who was making a tolerable attack upon some rognons sautes, and had already finish- ed his demi-bouteille of Chablis. " What are you eating there ? '' " Sole au gratin, ^^ replied Jack Johnson ; " scalloped sole, if I may term it so, — only it isn't. " " Well, but it IS a sole, is it not?*" observed Mr. Ledbury. " No more than you are a grasshopper, " re- turned Jack. " How could they afford soles for a twenty-fiv% sous breakfast, and so far away from the sea ? The soles here are all f...lounders cut into shape, kept to acquire a game-flavour, and then served up with sauce and mushrooms. " " What a deception French cookery is ! " re- marked Ledbury. "So is English too, occasionally, " said Jack, " especially school-pies, and hashed mutton at home on Saturdays — all culinary equivocations. " " I suppose you will tell me next that these are not kidneys which I am eating. " " No more they are, " replied Jack ; " they MR. LEDBURY. 61 cut them out of /oie de veau. It's the same with everything else.
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