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This reward, befitting an actor, punished an unseemly performance with a shameful wage. For Starkad excellently judged the man's deserts, and bestowed a shankbone for the piper to pipe on, requiting his soft service with a hard fee. None could say whether the actor piped or wept the louder; he showed by his bitter flood of tears how little place bravery has in the breasts of the dissolute.
Humph? look at this one, comrade; and you come too and look at it, and bring you smooth knave along." The archer with the torch, whose name was Philippe, held the bone to the light and turned it round and round. "Well?" said Denys. "Well, if this was a field of battle, I should say 'twas the shankbone of a man; no more, no less. But 'tisn't a battlefield, nor a churchyard; 'tis an inn."
Yet proper cooking is not a recondite process, nor one beyond the simplest intelligence. It means first and most, pains and patience, with somewhat of foresight, and something more of judgment. Cut off the hock, but not too high barely the slender shankbone. Then go all over the ham with a dull knife, scraping off every bit of removable grease or soilure.
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