Dinners lead to dinners. A banquet has lately taken place where Jirmiii, the eminent publisher, presented a sirloin of lion, a leg and heart of the same animal, artistically cooked, that is disguised; the flesh, though firm and close-grained, could not be ranked higher than with that from the horse ; the heart was not at all " tender," but rather tough. " Out of the eater hath come forth meat," but not of a nature to justify the opening of a sdecial butcher's shop, or the formation of a philanthropic joint-stock society to encouraga the consumption of the delicacy. " •-
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 4361, 12 March 1875, Page 3
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