The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-12
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| and truf3ed.
/" In order TO gain time | made him
und,-stand by gestures that IL would he
! best TO hist saturate you with trufies in
side. so that WIEN killed and cooked you
would nave a fine trunly flavor. | got two
weeks time in which 10 prepare you, and
during that time you will have the conso.
lation Of stufiing yourself with truflies
aud filing yourself with sauce
lie added ia a fearful voice, / PROM
Use YOU that no one but myself will have
any hand in cooking your
The guests at this point were all atton-
ton. listening with knives and forks IN
the air.
Although | was daily expecting this
news resumed the doctor, 81 was pros
trated when ] heard il, and the truiles
that Amedee served up TO me at every
meal only added to my CONSERVATION.
'sThey made me swallow enormous
ouantities of them, cooked On cinders,
fricasseed, In cocoanut milk, in gravy II
so forth.
"Tbe savages made the women dig
them out. The women devoted them
selves 10 the work with enthusiasm, ana
would have eaten them rs fast as they
grubbed them from the soil were it not
that whenever they attempted to devour
one they were brought to "A sense OF duty
by a blow Of a stout stick Oh the head.
II quickly lost flesh on this regimen j
was racked with cramps in the siomhch
and seized with such a violent headache
that | felt as if my brain were on fire.
"At the end OF two weeks my whole
body exhaled the odor Of trufilcs.
Il had evidently reached cooking point.
zone evening the chief minister. who
had been assigned to help Amedee in The
kitchen, came to inspect me. While he
was smelling and smiling me a happy
thought came to my mind-tbe idea that
the savage could be induced TO believe
that he was already as proficient as Anne
dee, and SO might aspire to the role OF
chief cook.
II picked up a mushroom. and, point
ing to Amedee, who was lying asleep, |
tried to make the cannibal understand 10y
my gestures what an appetizing dish that
excellent man, so plump and fat, would
make when served up in that delicious
sauce of his own invention.
1.-THE savage Immediately ran to the
kings hut, evidently surprised at not hay-
ing hit on that happy idea before.
"The next morning | was awakened by
a loud fixing. 1t was Amedee who was
being fried by his former servant in a
mass of mushrooms.
II could not help feeling overjoyed-
first, because my companion was no more
favored than myself; and, secondly, be
cause ! knew that the new cook would
respite me for q while longer, as he had
his stock Of prisoners renewed.
But | was not only respited-I was
savedl"
What savedY" inquired the guests, all
speaking at once.
yes, m%iraculously saved The sue
cessor Of Amedee, who, ! need hardly tell
YOU, was not an expert in the matter OF
mushrooms, had fried my companion in a
poisonous species Of that root. And so,
while the entire tribe were twisting and
writhing in the throes of an indescribable
colo, | seized my opportunity and made
my escape TO the shore.
'The Lessiye, which had not been able
TO wait for us before, had now come back
in search of MS.
II was sick for over a year after my
and / have had an unspeakable
aversion TO truffleS ever since. But as for
mushrooms, | almost adore them''
And the doctor then feelingiy emptied
another glass Of champagne in memory Of
his friend Amedee. TRANSLATED for the
New York World by j. c. Curtin from
the French of CASTOR Massey.