tend, to that of the crisp, tawny, well-watched, not over-roasted, crackling, as it is well called

the very teeth are invited to their share of the pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy, brittle resistance with the adhesive

oleaginous O call it not fat-but an indefiable sweetness growing up to it — the tender blossoming of fat - fat cropped in the bud taken in the shoot in the first innocence the cream and quintessence of the child-pig's yet pure food-the lean, no lean, but a kind of animal manna-or, rather, fat and lean (if it must be so) so blended and running into each other, that both together make but one ambrosian result, or common substance.

Behold him, while he is doing — it seemeth

rather a refreshing warmth, then a scorching

How equably

heat, that he is so passive to. he twirleth round the string! - Now he is just done. To see the extreme sensibility of that tender age, he hath wept out his pretty eyes radiant jellies-shooting stars —

have

See him in the dish, his second cradle, how meek he lieth!- wouldst thou have had this innocent grow up to the grossness and indocility which too often accompany maturer swinehood? Ten to one he would proved a glutton, a sloven, an obstinate, disagreeable animal-wallowing in all manner of filthy conversation-from these sins he is happily snatched away —

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,

Death came with timely care —

flesh of swine, or indeed of any other animal, might be cooked (burnt, as they call it) without the necessity of consuming a whole house to dress it. Then first began the rude form of a gridiron. Roasting by the string, or spit, came in a century or two later, I forget in whose dynasty. By such slow degrees, concludes the manuscript, do the most useful, and seemingly the most obvious arts, make their way among mankind.

Without placing too implicit faith in the account above given, it must be agreed, that if a worthy pretext for so dangerous an experiment as setting houses on fire (especially in these days) could be assigned in favour of any culinary object, that pretext and excuse might be found in roast pig.