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A Dissertation upon Roast Pig - L. J. (Lewis Jesse) Bridgman
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Title: A Dissertation upon Roast Pig
Author: Charles Lamb
Illustrator: L. J. Bridgman
Release Date: August 26, 2013 [EBook #43566]
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CHARLES LAMB.
A DISSERTATION UPON ROAST PIG
BY CHARLES LAMB
Illustrated by L. J. Bridgman
BOSTON
D. LOTHROP COMPANY
FRANKLIN AND HAWLEY STREETS
Copyright, 1888
BY
D. Lothrop Company.
PRESSWORK BY BERWICK & SMITH, BOSTON.
YE DELIGHTFUL PIG.
BO-BO PLAYETH WITH FIRE.
UPON ROAST PIG
Mankind, says a Chinese manuscript, which my friend M. was obliging enough to read and explain to me, for the first seventy thousand ages ate their meat raw, clawing or biting it from the living animal, just as they do in Abyssinia to this day. This period is not obscurely hinted at by their great Confucius in the second chapter of his Mundane Mutations, where he designates a kind of golden age by the term Cho-fang, literally the Cooks' holiday. The manuscript