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"Bring a bushel," said Bob; "and say, tell the cook I'd like a dish of peacock-tongues on the side." The infinite good nature of it all caused another laugh from everybody. The girl brought everything Bob ordered except the peacock-tongues, and this order supplied the lecturer and his party of four.
When half a world calls a man by a nickname, it is a patent to nobility small men are never so honored. "Good-by, Bob," called the white-aproned cook as he stood in the kitchen-door and waved his big spoon. "Good-by, Brother, and mind you get those peacock-tongues by the time I get back," answered Bob.
Under the supervision of butlers the courses were served on platters so large that they covered the tables; sows' breasts with Lybian truffles; dormice baked in poppies and honey, peacock-tongues flavored with cinnamon; oysters stewed in garum a sauce made of the intestines of fish sea-wolves from the Baltic; sturgeons from Rhodes; fig-peckers from Samos; African snails; pale beans in pink lard; and a yellow pig cooked after the Troan fashion, from which, when carved, hot sausages fell and live thrushes flew.
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