Cheese is the biscuit of drunkards. Hot milk is the true and excellent dissolvent of oysters. New wine, a common friendly dinner, and music by amateurs are three things to be dreaded. Five hours at table are a reasonable latitude for a numerous company at a sumptuous dinner. A gormand is in his prime from forty to sixty years of age.
Some persons are afraid to sit at a table with twelve others.
We are of opinion that the number thirteen ought to create no other apprehension that that of there being a sufficient provision made for twelve only. A few drops of Ether on a lump of sugar, are sufficient to precipitate digestion, and to dispose a person to begin a good dinner over again. The Bufreur is another term for one of this species. These terms applied to the fair sex, are La Gourmande, la Gloutonne, la Goulae, la Goinfre, and la Bafreuse. Some of our turtle-eating aldermen may perhaps find two English words for the three last French ones.