CHINESE DELICACIES.
[TO rue EDITOM OP THE "SPECTATOR.."] Sin,—Reading in the Spectator that dog's-flesh is considered a delicacy in China, recalled to my recollection a tale told me many years ago about a roast pointer pup having one day done duty at a nobleman's table for roast fawn. Lord Strange, son of the eleventh Earl of Derby, had three daughters. All the young ladies were very partial to roast fawn, and his lordship declared a roast puppy, fed from its birth on milk, would taste quite as nice as a fawn. His opinion was warmly controverted. Shortly afterwards a fawn appeared on the dinner-table, and was greatly appreciated by the ladies. " How did you enjoy the fawn P" asked their father on his entering the drawing-room. " Very much," answered two of the girls "It was delicious," said a third. "I am glad to hear it. It was one of Juna's ' pups, fed exclusively on milk for you," said my lord. Exit all three young ladies, and the family doctor was at once sent for. I heard the tale from a grand. child of the youngest of the three sisters, a cousin of my own.
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