| Show TO after having partaken partaker par taken of Cleo patras hec necklace klace mark antony determined to devise the costliest cost liest breakfast ever given after several days of gastronomical meditations not having found what be he was vas looking for he summoned his cook to his presence and told him that if he could get up a dainty breakfast for a lady which should be composed of as few and as small dishes as possible and at the same time be most costly he would reward him accordingly several weeks after the cook entered mark anthonys An tonys study and told him that he was ready to serve the dainty breakfast asked of of him and that it was composed of one olive only at the appointed haur the cook entered the dinning room followed by men carrying the olive in its artificial envelope on their shoulders they deposited it on a table tabie made for the occasion and 50 carvers were set to work on onit it anter after several hours of hard work the triumphant cook placed the olive before the queen who looked at it with amazement still with perfect delight the olive had been prepared in the following way after alter having been stoned it was stuffed with a rich custard then put inside of a boned canary which was used to stuff an the latter was placed inside of a boned oriole which was used to stuffs stuff a thrush which thrush stuffed a boned lark A boned snipe was stuffed with the lark and placed inside of a robin which was used to stuff a plover and which latter bird filled a quail which was then placed inside of a pigeon the pigeon filled a woodcock the woodcock a partridge the latter a grouse the grouse a pheasant the pheasant a chicken the chicken a guinea fowl which was placed inside of a goose the goose filled a turkey the turkey a swan the latter an ostrich which was used to stuff a sheep the sheep a palf calf the calf an antelope the latter a pig the pig a deer the deer a bear the bear a heifer the latter an elk the elk an ox the ox a hippopotamus po tamus the latter an elep elee elephant hant the olive was then roasted in its envelope which envelope was thrown away an and a the olive only served galaxy |
