Old supper-houses--The Early Closing Act--Evans's--Cremorne Gardens--"The Albion"--Parlour cookery--Kidneys fried in the fire-shovel--The true way to grill a bone--"Cannie Carle"--My lady's bower--Kidney dumplings--A Middleham supper--Steaks cut from a colt by brother to "Strafford" out of sister to "Bird on the Wing" 181-191 CHAPTER XVII "CAMPING OUT" The ups and downs of life--Stirring adventures--Marching on to glory--Shooting in the tropics--Pepper-pot--With the _Rajah Sahib_--Goat-sacrifices at breakfast time--Simla to Cashmere--Manners and customs of Thibet--Burmah--No place to get fat in--Insects--Voracity of the natives--Snakes--Sport in the Jungle--Loaded for snipe, sure to meet tiger--With the gippos--No baked hedgehog--Cheap milk 192-205 CHAPTER XVIII COMPOUND DRINKS Derivation of punch--"Five"--The "milk" brand--The best materials--Various other punches--Bischoff or Bishop--"Halo" punch--Toddy--The toddy tree of India--Flip--A "peg"--John Collins--Out of the guard-room 206-218 CHAPTER XIX CUPS AND CORDIALS Five recipes for claret cup--Balaclava cup--Orgeat--Ascot cup--Stout and champagne--Shandy-gaff for millionaires--Ale cup--Cobblers which will stick to the last--Home Ruler--Cherry brandy--Sloe gin--Home-made, if possible--A new industry--Apricot brandy--Highland cordial--Bitters--Jumping-powder-- Orange brandy--"Mandragora"--"Sleep rock thy brain!" 219-231 CHAPTER XX THE DAYLIGHT DRINK Evil effects of dram-drinking--The "Gin-crawl"--Abstinence in H.M. service--City manners and customs--Useless to argue with the soaker--Cocktails--Pet names for drams--The free lunch system--Fancy mixtures--Why no cassis?--Good advice like water on a duck's back 232-245 CHAPTER XXI GASTRONOMY IN FICTION AND DRAMA Thomas Carlyle--Thackeray--Harrison Ainsworth--Sir Walter Scott--Miss Braddon--Marie Corelli--F. C. Philips--Blackmore--Charles Dickens--_Pickwick_ reeking with alcohol--Brandy and oysters--_Little Dorrit_--_Great Expectations_--Micawber as a punch-maker--_David Copperfield_--"Practicable" food on the stage--"Johnny" Toole's story of Tiny Tim and the goose 246-259 CHAPTER XXII RESTORATIVES