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THE RIGHTEOUS MAN TO PUNISH SIN AND FOLLY.

- 36. MAY.

i. FISH.-Brill, carp, chub, cod, conger-eels, crabs, cray-fish, dabbs, dace, dory, eels, flounders, gurnets, haddock, halibut, herring, ling, lobsters, mackarel, mullet, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sturgeon, tench, trout, turbots, whitings.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, grass-lamb, houselamb, mutton, pork, veal.

iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens,

ducklings, fowls, green geese, leverets, pigeons, pullets, rabbits, wood-pigeons. iv. VEGETABLES. Angelica, artichokes, asparagus, balm, kidney-beans, cabbage, carrots, cauliflowers, chervil, cucumbers, fennel, herbs of all sorts, lettuce, mint, onions, parsley, peas, new potatoes, purslane, radishes, rhubarb, salad of all sorts, sea-kale, sorrel, spinach, thyme, turnips.

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vii. FRUIT.-Apples: John apple, stone pippin, golden russet. Apricots. Cherries: Duke, bigaroon, black-heart. Currants; gooseberries; melons. Pears: Winter green. Strawberries. Forced: Grapes, nectarines, peaches, pines.

38. JULY.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, carp, cod, conger-eels, crabs, cray-fish, dabbs, dace, dory, eels, flounders, gurnets, haddocks, let, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, herrings, ling, lobsters, mackarel, mulskate, soles, tench, thornback, trout.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, grass-lamb, mutton, veal, buck venison.

iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, ducks, fowls, green geese, leverets, pigeons, plovers, rabbits, turkey poults, wheat-ears, wild pigeons, wild rabbits.

iv. VEGETABLES.-Artichokes, aspaV. FRUIT. Apples: John apple, scarlet, and Windsor), carrots, cauliragus, balm, beans (French, kidney, golden russet, winter russet. May-duke flowers, celery, chervil, cucumbers, encherries; currants; gooseberries; melons. dive, finochia, herbs of all sorts, letPears: L'amozette, winter green-scar-tuces, mint, mushrooms, peas, potatoes, let strawberries. Forced: Apricots, nutmeg peaches, strawberries.

i. FISH.

37. JUNE.

purslane, radishes, rocombole, salads of all sorts, salsify, scorzonera, sorrel, spinach, turnips.

V. FOR DRYING.-Knotted marjoram, mushrooms, winter savoury.

vi. FOR PICKLING.-French beans, red cabbage, cauliflowers, garlic, ghernasturtiums, onions.

vii. FRUIT.-Apples: Codlin, jennetting, Margaret, summer pearmain, summer pippin. Apricots, cherries, currants, damsons, gooseberries, melons, nectarines, peaches. Pears: Catherine, greenchisel, jargonelle, musque. Oranges, pineapples, plums, raspberries, straw

Carp, cod, conger-eels, crabs, cray-fish, dabbs, dace, dory, eels, flounders, gurnets, haddocks, herrings, ling, lobsters, mackarel, mullet, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, salmon-kins, trout, skate, smelts, soles, sturgeon, tench, trout, turbot, whitebait, whitings. ii. MEAT.-Beef, grass-lamb, houselamb, mutton, pork, veal, buck venison. iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, ducklings, fowls, green geese, leverets, pigeons, plovers, pullets, rabbits, turkey poults, wheat-ears, wood-pigeons. iv. VEGETABLES. Angelica, artichoke, asparagus, beans (French, kidney, and Windsor), white beet, cabbage, carrots, cauliflowers, chervil, cucumbers, endive, herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuce, onions, parsley, peas, potatoes, purslane, radishes, salad of all sorts, spinach, turnips, vegetable marrow.

v. FOR DRYING.-Burnet, mint, tarragon, orange-thyme.

vi. FOR PICKLING.-Garlic.

berries.

39. AUGUST.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, carp, cod, conger-eels, crabs, cray-fish, dabbs, dace, eels, flounders, gurnets, haddocks, herrings, lobsters, mackarel, mullet, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, skate, soles, tench, thornback, turbot, whitings.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, grass-lamb, mutton, veal, buck venison.

iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens,

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WITHOUT ECONOMY, NONE CAN BE RICH;

ducks, fowls, green geese, grouse (from lars, peaches. Pears: Bergamot, brown 12th), leverets, moor-game, pigeons, beurré. Pineapples, plums, quinces, plovers, rabbits, turkeys, turkey poults, strawberries, walnuts. wheat-ears, wild ducks, wild pigeons, wild rabbits.

iv. VEGETABLES.-Artichokes, beans (French, kidney, scarlet, and Windsor), white beet, carrots, cauliflowers, celery, cucumbers, endive, finochia, pot-herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuces, mushrooms, onions, peas, potatoes, purslane, radishes, salad of all sorts, salsify, scorzonera, shalots, spinach, turnips.

V. FOR DRYING.-Basil, sage, thyme. vi. FOR PICKLING. Red cabbage, capsicums, chilies, tomatos, walnuts.

vii. FRUIT.-Apples: Codlin, summer pearmain, summer pippin. Cherries, currants, damsons, figs, filberts, gooseberries, grapes, melons, mulberries, nectarines, peaches. Pears: Jargonelle, summer Bon Chrétien, Windsor. Plums: Greengages, Orleans. Raspberries, Alpine strawberries.

40. SEPTEMBER.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, carp, cockles, cod, conger-eels, crab, dace, eels, flounders, gurnets, haddocks, hake, herrings, lobsters, mullet, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, shrimps, soles, tench, thornback, turbot, whitings.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, mutton, pork, veal, buck venison.

iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, ducks, fowls, green geese, grouse, hares, larks, leverets, moor-game, partridges, pigeons, plovers, rabbits, teal, turkey, turkey poults, wheat-ears, wild ducks, wild pigeons, wild rabbits.

iv. VEGETABLES.-Artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, beans (French and scarlet), cabbages, carrots, cauliflowers, celery, cucumbers, endive, finochia, herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuces, mushrooms, onions, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes, salad of all sorts, shalots, turnips.

41. OCTOBER.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, turbot, carp, cockles, cod, conger-eels, crabs, dace, dory, eels, gudgeon, haddocks, hake, halibut, herrings, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, prawns, salmontrout, shrimps, smelts, soles, tench, thornback, turbot, whitings.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, mutton, pork, veal, doe venison.

iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, dotterel, ducks, fowls, green geese, grouse, hares, larks, moor-game, partridges, pheasants, pigeons, rabbits, snipes, teal, turkey, wheat-ears, widgeon, wild ducks, wild pigeons, wild rabbits, woodcocks.

iv. VEGETABLES.-Artichokes, Jerusalem artichokes, brocoli, cabbages, cauliflowers, celery, coleworts, endive, herbs of all sorts, leeks, onions, parsnips, peas, potatoes, radishes, rocombole, salad, savoys, scorzonera, skirrets, shalots, spinach (winter), tomatos, truffles, turnips.

V. FRUIT.-Apples: Pearmain, golden pippin, golden rennet, royal russet. Black and white bullace, damsons, late figs, almonds, filberts, hazel nuts, grapes, medlars. Peaches: Old Newington, October. Pears: Bergamot, beurré, Charmontel, Bon Chrétien, cresau, swan's-egg. Quinces, services, walnuts.

42. NOVEMBER.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, turbot, carp, cockles, cod, crabs, dace, dory, eels, gudgeons, gurnets, haddocks, hake, halibut, herrings, ling, lobsters, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, prawns, salmon, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, tench, thornback, turbot, whitings.

ii. MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton, pork, veal, doe venison.

V.. FRUIT.-Apples: White Caville, pearmain, golden rennet. Cherries (Morella), damsons, figs, filberts. Grapes: iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Chickens, Muscadine, Frontignac, red and black dotterel, ducks, fowls, geese, grouse, Hamburgh, Malmsey. Hazel nuts, med-hares, larks, moor-game, partridges,

WITH ECONOMY, FEW NEED BE POOR.

pheasants, pigeons, rabbits, snipes, teal, turkey, wheat-ears, widgeon, wild ducks, woodcocks.

iv. VEGETABLES. Jerusalem artichokes, chard beets, borecole, brocoli, cabbages, cardoons, carrots, celery, chervil, coleworts, endive, herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuces, onions, parsnips, potatoes, salad, savoys, scorzonera, skirrets, shalots, spinach, tomatos, turnips.

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cannot always be obtained, it is most important to dry herbs at the proper seasons— -Basil is in a fit state for drying about the middle of August. Burret in June, July, and August. Chervil in May, June, and July. Elder Flowers in May, June, and July. Fennel in May, June, and July. Knotted Marjoram during July. Lemon Thyme, end of July and through August. Mint, end of June and July. Orange V. FRUIT.-Almonds. Apples: Hol- Flowers, May, June, and July. Orange land pippin, golden pippin, Kentish Thyme (a delicious herb), June and pippin, nonpareil, winter pearmain, July. Parsley, May, June, and July. Wheeler's russets. Bullace, chestnuts, Sage, August and September. Summer hazel nuts, grapes, medlars. Pears: Savoury, end of July and August. TarBergamot, Bezy de Charmontelle, Col-ragon, June, July, and August. Thyme, mar, cresau, Spanish Bon Chrétien. end of July and August. Winter Services, walnuts.

43. DECEMBER.

i. FISH.-Barbel, brill, turbot, carp, cockles, cod, crabs, dab, dory, eels, gudgeon, gurnets, haddocks, hako, halibut, herrings, ling, lobsters, mackarel, mussels, oysters, perch, pike, plaice, ruffe, salmon, shrimps, skate, smelts, soles, sprats, sturgeon, tench, whitings. ii. MEAT.-Beef, house-lamb, mutton, pork, veal, doe venison.

Savoury, end of July and August.

These herbs always at hand will be a great aid to the cook. Herbs should be gathered on a dry day; they should be immediately well cleansed, and dried by the heat of a stove or Dutch oven. The leaves should then be picked off, pounded and sifted, put into stoppered bottles labelled, and put away for use.

45. Dr. Kitchiner's Rules for Marketing.-The best rule for marketing is to pay ready money for iii. POULTRY AND GAME.-Capons, everything, and to deal with the most chickens, dotterel, ducks, fowls, geese, respectable tradesmen in your neighgrouse, guinea-fowl, hares, larks, moor-bourhood. If you leave it to their game, partridges, pea-fowl, pheasants, integrity to supply you with a good pigeons, rabbits, snipes, teal, turkey, article at the fair market price, you wheat-ears, widgeon, wild ducks, wood- will be supplied with better provisions, cocks. and at as reasonable a rate as those iv. Vegetables. - Jerusalem arti- bargain-hunters who trot "around, chokes, beets, borecole, white and pur-around, around about” a market till ple brocoli, cabbages, cardoons, carrots, celery, endive, herbs of all sorts, leeks, lettuces, onions, parsnips, potatoes, salad, savoys, scorzonera, skirrets, shalots, spinach, truffles, turnips, forced

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they are trapped to buy some unchewable old poultry, tough tup-mutton, stringy cow-beef, or stale fish, at a very little less than the price of prime and proper food. With savings like these they toddle home in triumph, cackling all the way, like a goose that has got ankle-deep into good luck. All the skill of the most accomplished cook will avail nothing unless she is furnished with prime provisions. The best way to procure these is to deal with shops of established character: you may appear to pay, perhaps, ten per cent. more than

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DO GOOD TO YOUR ENEMY, THAT HE MAY BECOME YOUR FRIEND.

you would were you to deal with those who pretend to sell cheap, but you would be much more than in that proportion better served. Every trade has its tricks and deceptions; those who follow them can deceive you if they please, and they are too apt to do so if you provoke the exercise of their over-reaching talent. Challenge them to a game at "Catch who can," by entirely relying on your own judgment, and you will soon find nothing but very long experience can make you equal to the combat of marketing to the utmost advantage. If you think a tradesman has imposed upon you, never use a second word, if the first will not do, nor drop the least hint of an imposition; the only method to induce him to make an abatement is the hope of future favours; pay the demand, and deal with the gentleman no more; but do not let him see that you are displeased, or as soon as you are out of sight your reputation will suffer as much as your pocket has. Before you go to market, look over your larder, and consider well what things are wanting especially on a Saturday. No well-regulated family can suffer a disorderly caterer to be jumping in and out to make purchases on a Sunday morning. You will be enabled to manage much better if you will make out a bill of fare for the week on the Saturday before; for example, for a family of half a dozen

Sunday-Roast beef and pudding. Monday-Fowl, what was left of pudding fried, or warmed in the Dutch

oven.

Tuesday-Calf's head, apple pie. Wednesday-Leg of mutton.

except for Sunday. When you order meat, poultry, or fish, tell the tradesman when you intend to dress it: he will then have it in his power to serve you with provision that will do him credit, which the finest meat, &c., in the world will never do, unless it has been kept a proper time to be ripe and tender.-Kitchiner's Cook's Oracle.

46. The Family Circle.-Under this title, a series of friendly parties have been instituted by a group of acquaintances in London. The following form of invitation, and the rules of the Family Circle, will be found interesting, probably useful:

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Will you do me the favour of meeting here, as a guest, on next, at seven precisely, a few friends who have kindly joined in an attempt to commence occasional pleasant and social parties, of which the spirit and intent will be better understood by the perusal of the few annexed remarks and rules from Yours sincerely,

"They manage it better in France," is a remark to be often applied with reference to social life in England, and the writer fancies that the prevalence here of a few bad customs, easily changed, causes the disadvantageous difference between ourselves and our more courteous and agreeable neighbours.

i. Worldly appearance; the phantom leading many to suppose that wealth is the standard of worth-in the minds of friends, a notion equally degrading to both parties.

ii. Overdress; causing unnecessary expense and waste of time.

iii. Expensive entertainments, as regards refreshments.

iv. Late hours.

The following brief rules are suggested, in a hope to show the way to a

Thursday-Ditto broiled or hashed, and pan- more constant, easy, and friendly in

cakes.

Friday-Fish, pudding.
Saturday-Fish, or eggs and bacon.

It is an excellent plan to have certain things on certain days. When your butcher or poulterer knows what you will want, he has a better chance of doing his best for you; and never think of ordering beef for roasting

tercourse amongst friends, the writer feeling convinced that society is equally beneficial and requisite-in fact, that mankind in seclusion, like the sword in the scabbard, often loses polish, and gradually rusts.

RULE I. That meetings be held in rotation at each member's house, for the enjoy ment of conversation; music, grave and gay;

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dancing, gay only; and card-playing at limited laudatory speeches (commonly called toasts,

stakes.

RULE II. That such meetings commence at seven and end about or after twelve, and that members and guests be requested to remember that punctuality has been called the politeness of kings.

RULE III. That as gentlemen are allowed for the whole season to appear, like the raven, in one suit, ladies are to have the like privilege; and that no lady be allowed to quiz or notice the habits of another lady; and that demitoilette in dress be considered the better taste in the family circle; not that the writer wishes to raise or lower the proper standard of ladies' dress, which ought to be neither too high nor too low, but at a happy medium.

RULE IV. That any lady infringing the last rule be liable to reproof by the oldest lady present at the meeting, if the oldest lady, like the oldest inhabitant, can be discovered.

RULE V. That every member or guest be requested to bring with them their own vocal, instrumental, or dance music, and take it away with them, if possible, to avoid loss and confusion.

RULE VI. That no member or guest, able to sing, play, or dance, refuse, unless excused by medical certificate; and that no cold or sore throat be allowed to last more than a week.

RULE VII. That as every member or guest known to be able to sing, play, or dance, is bound to do so if requested, the performer (especially if timid) is to be kindly criticized and encouraged; it being a fact well known, that the greatest masters of an art are always the most lenient critics, from their deep knowledge of the feeling, intelligence, and perseverance required to at all approach perfection.

RULE VIII. That gentlemen present do pay every attention to ladies, especially visitors; but such attention is to be general, and not particular-for instance, no gentleman is to dance more than three times with one lady during the evening, except in the case of lovers, privileged to do odd things during their temporary lunacy, and also married couples, who are expected to dance together at least once during

the evening, and oftener if they please.

RULE IX. That to avoid unnecessary expense, the refreshments be limited to cold meat, sandwiches, bread, cheese, butter, vegetables, fruits, tea, coffee, negus, punch, malt liquors, &c., &c.

RULE X. That all personal or face to face

or, as may be, roasts) be for the future for. bidden, without permission or inquiry, for reasons following:-That as the family circle includes bachelors and spinsters, and he, she, or they may be secretly engaged, it will be therefore cruel to excite hopes that may be disappointed; and that as some well-informed Benedict of long experience may after supper advise the bachelor to find the way to woman's heart-vice versa, some deep-feeling wife or widow, by "pity moven," may, perhaps, after supper advise the spinster the other way, which, in public, is an impropriety manifestly to be avoided.

RULE XI. (suggested by a lady). That any lady, after supper, may (if she please) ask any gentleman apparently diffident, or requiring encouragement, to dance with her, and that no gentleman can of course refuse so kind a request.

RULE XII. That no gentleman be expected to escort any lady home on foot beyond a distance of three miles, unless the gentleman be positive and the lady agreeable.

RULE THE LAST. That as the foregoing remarks and rules are intended, in perfect good faith and spirit, to be considered general and not personal, no umbrage is to be taken, and the reader is to bear in mind the common and homely saying,

"Always at trifles scorn to take offence,

It shows great pride and very little sense." P.S.-To save trouble to both parties, this invitation be deemed accepted, without the necessity to reply, unless refused within twenty-four hours.

47. Evening Pastime.

Among the innocent recreations of the fireside, there are few more commendable and practicable than those afforded by what are severally termed Anagrams, Charades, Conundrums, Enigmas, Puzzles, Rebuses, Riddles, Transpositions, &c. Of these there are such a variety, that they are suited to every capacity; and they present this additional attraction, that ingenuity may be exercised in the invention of them, as well as in their solution. Many persons who have become noted for their literary compositions may date the origin of their success to the time when they attempted the composition of a trifling enigma or charade,

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