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Show FED AND FATTENED FOR TABLE. Chinese Diplomat Talks About Edible Dogs and Rats. The Chinese diplomat regarded his grilled frogs' legs with faint disgust. "I suppose they are good." he faltered. fal-tered. "It is hard, though, to conquer my repulsion. Yet they are clean clean feeders, eh?" The American laughed long and loud. ' "You," he cried, "are repellod by frogs' legs, you who eat dogs and rats!" "Yes, but," said tho Chinaman, "our edible dogs and rats are the cleanest feeders imaginable They are equal to celery-fed duck or California peach fed hog. They are confined In runs, you know, and, to make their flesh white and delicate, they are fed on mushes of bread and milk and vegetables. vege-tables. No mat whatever. "You Americans think it disgusting to eat rats and dogs because you Imagine Im-agine them fattening on carrion and offal. But tfcese frogs here No, I'm afraid I can't They may have fed on some tramp suicide for all I know." Ho pushed back his plate and waited for the next course. |