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when dried, " Kipper," or " Bloater." To " bloat," inold provincial English, is to "dry by smoke."

What patriotic Scotchman does not know and lovethe same highly sustaining fish 1 And a capital pick-me-up the Kipper is to the dry throat and satedpalate next morning after a boozo overnight:—

"Tho Doetor was drunk as tlio douce, vve said,

And \ve managed a shutter to borrow;We raised him, and sighed at the tliought liow bis head

Would oonsumedly ache on tho morrow.Wo höre him home, and we put him to bed,

And we told his wife and Ins daughterTo give him next morning a couple of red

Herrings, and Soda-water."

Fresb, or dried, they are the staple food of the peoplein the [sie of Man. The Rieh Storehmse contains an oldreeipe: "For the Bwellingof the legs thatcomes on by coldor otherwise, take white herrings out of their pickle, andopen them, and tb.cn laythe insidesof the same herringsto the soles of your feet when you go to bed, and so letthem remain all night; in the morning apply new onesagain. Use this five or six times and the same will helpyou, probatum est." Again, as an approved medicine forague, "Take a herring that is well pickled, and split iton the belly side, and warm the same very hot, and layit to both soles of the feet of the party grieved, andthis will help immediately." For ague, in QueenElizabeth's time, the old apothecaries' remedy was awell-salted herring split open and applied as above.

In Kus.si;i currant jelly is taken as a condiment withred herrings. Alphonse Karr teils most amusingly(in Tour Round my Garden), of a midnight mnss at Lille.where "some old women were praying and preparinga supper called, a reveillon or medianoche: froni timeto time they drew froni under their ])ettieoats a smallehafing dish, upon which were cooking two or three

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