Show ANECDOTE OF BUCKLAND ahn distinguished geologist one day gave a dinner after dissecting a ill mississippi iss isas ip pi alligator having asked a good many odthe of the most distie distinguished I 1 dished of his classes bodine to dine with him his ilia house houser and all hla hia establishment were veto in good style and taste his flis guests congregated the dinner table tabe looked splendidly with glass china aud and plate and the meal commenced with excellent soup now how do you like liko the soup asked the docter doctor after finishing his own plate ed dressing a famous gourmand of the day very good indeed I 1 said the tho other turtle is il it not I 1 only ask because I 1 do not find any green fat the doctor shock his head 1 11 I think il it has somewhat ofa of a musky taste sald said another not unpleasant but peculiar pecullar pec tillar 1 all alligators a gators have replied buckland the cayman peculiarly so the tito fellow whom I 1 dissected this morning and whom you have just been eating there was a general rou route to of the whole every one turned pate half naif a dozen cozen started up from the table two or thre three e ran out of or the room and aud vomited and only those stout stomachs remained to the close of an excellent enter tain ment see yee see yea what imagination is said buckland if I 1 had told them it was turtle or 0 terrapin or bird birds Is nest soup salt jait water am philla or fresh or the gluten of a fish from the maw of the sea bird they tiley would woula have pronounced it excellent and their digestion been none the tho worse such is prejudice but was it really an alligator asked a lady As good a head as as ever wore a coronet coronets 9 9 answered buckland |