The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1874-10-30

ted by half dozen other Alsatian girls
laden with large wooden bowls. Each
OF these bowls is filled with q thick
white paste, made Of parboilcd maize,
chestnuts, and :buckwheat, most nour.
llssh'ng; and the mode Of administering
the dinner is for the girl
to catch the goose by the
neck, open his bill with little
squeeze, and then ram three or four
balls of the paste down his throat with
the middle finger. The goose having
been thus refreshed, resumes his slant.
ing position, and digests till the next
time for feeding, which arrives about
TWO hours after, the meals being about
SIX day. But now we have done with
inc women, for pensive mana con-
nolsseur of the obesity Of geese-breaks
upon the scene, climbs upon the top
most tier of all. and proceeds to examine
the birds who may be ''ripe." He has
an eye rs judicious as that Of Carmen
er inspecting melons; and his is the re:
ocponsible task Of pronouncing what
birds would die of natural death within
twenty-four hours if not dis.
patched beforehand. If o goose
dies of natural death he is good for
nothing. He must be unstrapped and
executed at the precise psychological
moment when nature is growing tired
OF supporting him, and the knack Of
detecting that moment can only come
OF long practice, and fetches the pos
SCISSOR wages as large as those Of a
dlamond-valuer. Our pensive func-
tlonary has not been a minute on the
table before he certifies four geese ready
for the slaughter. All four of them
have stomachs Of the size of pumpkins,
and from what one can gather of their
broken remarks, it is sincere relief of
these when couple Of male aeolytes
climb up, loose their bonds, and bear
them out of the cellar to penthouse
across the yard, full of knives and
chopping blocks. A click with the
chopper on the neck Of each, rap with
the knife, and, in less than five minutes
after their transfer, the carcasses Of
the four victims are lying in heap
while their livers arc being conveyed
with all respect and care to the
truffling- house. Tho carcasses, shriv.
eled out Of all knowledge, are
sold for about eight pence apiece
to peasants, who make soup of
them; the livers are first cleaned, then
put to scale, and our four geese are de.
.clared grand birds all Of them, for their
livers weigh from IL to pounds
each. The next step is to take each
liver and to lard it with trufflcs to
pound of liver, and then to convoy it to
an ice.housc, where it remains on mar
bic slab for week that tho truff1c per-
fume may thoroughly permeatc it. At
the end OF the week, each liver, being
| removed, is cut into the size required
for the pot which it is to ill, and intro
duced into that pot between two thin
layers Of mince-mcat made Of the finest
veal and bacon fat, both trufficd like
the liver itself; and one inch's depth of
the whitish lard is then spread over the
whole, that none of the SAVIOR may es-
cape in baking. The baking takes
about five hours, and absorbs all
the energies of four intelligent
Frenchmen in white, who relay each
other, to see that the fire never blazes
too high or sinks too low. When the
cooking is over, nothing remains but to
pack the dainty either in tin, or wood,
or earth, according as it may be needed
for home or foreign consumption, and to
ship to the four points Of the compass.
A question may here arise as to how
many geese die naturally before the
above processes can be carried out to
happy end; but it is pleasing fact
that few geese die, and those only ill.,
regulated birds who had unsound con.
stitutions or no ambition for high dcsti.
MES. 1t is on record, however, that a
member Of the Society for the Sup.
preston of Cruelty to Animals once
arrived in Strashurg armed with the
Larochefoucauld law, and endeavored
to cope with the pie factors; but he
was worsted, and there are strong
reasons for suspecting that he was a
Socialist.