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Show MUTTON MOURNED. The loss of 97,000 carcasses of mutton mut-ton when the Tokio Maru was sent to the bottom of the English channel by the unknown Gorman submarine will be severely felt by tho British army or the British public, for whichever they were intended. The English people are always referred to as "beef eaters," but it is mutton they like best. Thackeray Thack-eray was no exception to this rule and, after expressing his detestation of "Frenchified fuss" iu the shape of food, sings thusly: "But a plain leg of mutton, my Lucy, I prithee get ready at three; Have it smoking and tender and juicy And what better meat can there be? And when it has feasted the master, 'Twill amply suffiro for the maid; Meanwhile will smoko my canaster And tipple my alo iu tho shade.'' People J2f other countries as well as the Englishmen "have a tooth" for a leg of mutton, especially if it be "smoking "smok-ing and tender and juicy," and there will doubtless be many sighs of regret over tho news I hat, a ship loaded with mutton was ruthlessly sent to the bottom of the sea. The grief would not be so severely felt had tho ment been eaten bv the GcrT'inn soldiers and sailors, but as it liapp'Tied no one got any good out of it at a limo when there aro empty stomachs all over the world. |