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Show Dropsical Oysters. With a sneer the oyster opener pointed to a brownish smear upon a Saddlerock shell. "Some fool," said he, "has been trying try-ing to fatten up a batch of Saddlerocks with cornmeal. You might as well try to Invigorate flowers with cornbeef hash, "But it Is a common error to believe be-lieve that cornmeal or oatmeal will fatten oysters. I continually find oysters oy-sters with their shells stained with those grains. It makes me laugh. "As a matter, of fact, there is no such thing as fattening oysters. All you can do is swell them up with water, precisely the same as water swells a sponge. You put them In fresh water, which, being less dense than the salt they are accustomed to, by the principle of osmosis penetrates and distends their tissues gives them, as you might say, dropsy. ! "For my part, I don't like fattened oysters. I want water In my oysters no more than in my beer." |