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This is also a time of the Year when potted Meats begin to come in fashion; to do which, the following Receipt may be an Example. To pot a Leg of Beef to imitate potted Venison, from Col. Bradbury of Wicken-Hall.

Gradually raising my head over the thistles, I potted rapidly at the gunner, and my party did the same. The Japs by this time had recovered from their first shock, and began to open fire on the train, which steamed slowly back to the far end of the station, when it came to a standstill and pumped shrapnel along our front.

Gloucester also has its Spa, a chalybeate spring recently discovered in the south-eastern suburbs, but the town is chiefly known to fame abroad by its salmon and lampreys. The lamprey is caught in the Severn and potted for export, having been considered a dainty by the epicures of remote as well as modern times.

"I suppose you'd think it a favour if I'd pot Marlanx for you to-morrow." "It doesn't matter whether he's potted or not, my friend. She will not go back to him. He will have to find another prisoner for his household." Truxton's thoughts went with a shudder to the underground room and the fair prisoner who had shared it with him.

In those days wide trousers were the fashion, and Boller was, above all, fashion's ardent devotee. His, I think, exceeded by four inches the widest in the college. Recalling him as he came forth from the group on the steps to greet me, I think of him as potted in his trousers, like a plant, so slender rose his body from his draped legs.

The young man's observation of this interesting process was interrupted by the sound of voices and the tread of feet. They were British voices. "They came this way. I saw them when they turned," a voice was saying. "If I had been a little closer, I could have potted both men with one bullet." "Why didn't you take a shot anyhow?" another asked. "I was creeping up, trying to get closer.

"Well, you wouldn't understand. A man couldn't. But it's this way. Lots of potted meats and jars of jam and cans of tea and coffee and cocoa in the pantry, but no fresh meat or green vegetables about. No butter in the icebox, and no eggs or bacon." "Well, what does that imply? I'm no housekeeper, I admit."

At times the ample streets broadened into still more roomy avenues where potted trees alternated with the frescoed columns, and beyond which were luxurious gardens and vast statuary halls.

When well done, drain it from the gravy, put it into pots to keep, and when cold cover it with clarified butter. Any kind of firm fish may be potted in the same manner. POTTED SHRIMPS. When boiled, take them out of the skins, and season them with salt, white pepper, and a very little mace and cloves. Press them into a pot, set it in the oven ten minutes, and when cold lay on butter.

In the East Room, at the doors, and in the corners and alcoves tropical plants were clustered in profusion. The mantles were banked with bright-colored cut flowers, smilax was entwined in the huge glass chandeliers, and elsewhere throughout the room were stands of potted plants.