Richfield Reaper | 1922-12-14 | Page 26 | The Boar's Head

the boars baars head the old christmas christinas dishes were of course largely determined by the food material available for the christmas board the existence of thousands of wild boars baars in the woods made boar hantl hunting n gone one of th the e national sports and the boars baars head bead with its concomitant brawn one of the most popular among christmas dishes the old custom of serving up this ancient dish at queens college oxford Is associated with a legend to the effect that in olden days one of the students when attacked attached by one of these wild denizens of the woods saved himself from its jaws by thrusting his greek lexicon down its throat with the ejaculation grae cuin est it Is greek of course the i beast was choked the choking ties of such a dry as dust volume possibilities being generally understood