The weekly Butte record., 1858-09-18

Without placing too implicit faith In the ac-
count given, it mdst be agreed, that if a worthy
pretext Tor so dangerous an experiment as set
ting houses on fire Especially in these days.
could be assigned in favour of any culinary OBJ
ject, that pretext and excuse might be found
in ROAST PIG.
Of all the delicacies in the whole mundis ed
'biiis, will maintain 1t to be the most deli
cate-pr,noeps obsionoruni.
speak not of your grown porkers-things
between pig and pofk-those hobbydehoys-
but young and tender suckling-under a
moon old-guiltless rs yet st the sty-with no
original spack of the amor ummeadniae, the
hereditary filling OF the first parent yet mani
/ fest-hls voice US yet not broken but some.
thing between childish treble and grumble
the mild iorerunner, prneludium OF a grunt
He must be roasted. | am rot ignorant that
our ances tors ate them seethed, or boiled
but what sacrifice of the exterior tegument .
There is no flavor comparable, will contend
t. that of the crisp, tawney, we'll watched, not
over-roasted cracking, as it is we'll called the
very teeth are invited to their share Of the
pleasure at this banquet in overcoming the coy
brittle resistance-with the adhesive oleagin-
ous-oh call it not fat-but an inde6nabe
sweetness growing up to 1.-THE tender bios
soming of fat-fat cropped in the bud-taken
IN the shoot-in the FIRST innocence-th cream
and qulntessence Of the child-pig's yet pure
! food--the lean, no lean, but kind Of animal
maana-or, rather. fat aud lean. (if it must be
so) SO blended and running into each other
that both together make but one ambrosial
result or common substance.
Behold him while he is doing-it seemeth
] IL
heat, that he is so passive to. How equally
he twirleth round the string. Now be is just
done. To see the extreme sensibility of that
tender age, he hath wept out his pretty eyes
radiant jellies-shooting stars.
See him in the dish, his second cradle. how
meek he leth l-wouldst thou have had this
innocent grow up to the grossness and indocil-
lty which too often accompany maturer swine
hood? Ten to one he would have proved
glutton, soven, an obstinate disagreeabe an
inal-walowing in all manner of filthy con-
yersation-from these sins he is happily snatch
ed away
ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death came with kindly care.
his memory is odGriferous-no clown curseth
while his stomach half rejecteth the rank ba
como coal-heaver boteth him in reeking
sausages-he hath fair sepulcbre in the
grateful stomach of judcious epicure- and
for such tomb might be content to die.
He IS the best OF sapors. Pineapple is great.
She Is indeed almost too transcendent-a de-
light, if not sinful, yet SO like to shining that
really tender-consienced person would do well
to pause-too rayishing for mortal taste, she
woundeth and excoriateth the lips that ap-
preach her-like lovers kisses she biteth--she
is pleasure bordering on pain from the fierce
ness and insanity Of her relish-but she stop
peth at the palate-she meddeth not with the
nppetite-and the coarsest hunger might bar
ter her consistently for mutton-chop
Pig-let me speak his praise-is no lsss pro-
yocative of the appetite than be is satisfactory
to the criticalness of the censoriouS pslate.
The strong man may baton on him, ard the
weakling refhscth not his mild Juices.
Unlike to nianhind's mixed characters, q
bundle of virtues and vices, inexplicably inter-
twisted, and not TO be unravelled without
! hazard, he is-good throughout. No part of
him is better or worse than another He
hepeth, as far as his little means extend, all
around. He is the the least envious of ban
quets. He is all neighbours fare
l am one of those who freely and ungrudg-
ly impart share of the good things of this
life which fall to their lot flew as mine are In
this kind) to a friend. / protest | take as
great an interest in my friends pleasures, and
his relishes, and proper satisfactlons, as in
mine own. Presents" | often say, "endear
absents." Hares, pheasants, partridges, snipes
barn-door chickens, those tame villattic
fowl" capons, plovers Drawn, barrels of oysters,
| dispense as freely as | receive them. love
to taste them, eS it were upon the tongue of
my friend. But stop must be put some
where. One would not, like Lear, 'sive every
thing" | make my stand upon pig. Me
thinks it is al ingratitude to the Giver OF all
good havours to extra domiciliate, or send out
friendship, or | know not what,) blessing so
particularly adapted, predestined, l may say
TO my individual palate-it argues an insensi-
bity.
! remember touch of conscience in this
kind at school. My good old aunt, who nev-
never parted with me at the end of a holiday
without stuliing a sweetmeat or something
nice into my pocket, had dismissed me one
evening with smoking pum-cake, fresh from
the oven. In my way 10 school, lit was over
London BRIDGE gray-headed old beggar salu-
ted me Il have no doubt at this time of day
that he was counterfeit.) had no pence to
console him with, and in the vanity of self de-
NAL, and the very coxcombry of charity. school
boy-like, | made him a present of-the whole
cake! | walked on little buoyed up, as one
is on such occasions, with sweet soothing of
dissatisfaction but before had got to the
end Of the bridge my better feelings returned,
and burst into tears, thinking how migrate
fu bed been to my good aunt, to 60 and give
her good gift away to stranger that l had
never seen before, and who might be bad
man for aught knew and then thought of
the pleasure my aunt would be taking in think
ing that II myself, and not another--wculd
eat her nice cake-and what should say to
her the next time l saw her-how naughty
was to part with her pretty present-and the
odor of that spicy cake came back upon my
Recollection, and the pleasure and the curios-
ity had taken in seeing her make it, and her
Joy when she sent it to the oven, and how dis
appointed she would feel that | had never had
bit of it in my mouth at last-and blamed
my impertinent spirit of alms-giving, and out
oi-place hypocracy of goodness, and above all
l wished never to see the face again of that in
! siduous, good-for-nothing, old, gray impos-
tor.
Our ancestors were nice in their method of
sacrificing these tender victims We read of
pigs whipped to death with something of a
shock nc We hear of anv other Obsolete custom