Consomme, a la de Stael (No. 668; 6 qts, 35 cents.)

Salmon trout, a la Chevaliere (2 fishes, 4 lbs, and seasonings, 40 cents.)

Nantaise potatoes (3 cents.)

Boiled ham and corned beef (20 cents.)

Roast loin of beef (3 lbs, net, 38 cents.)

Lamb cutlets with puree of green peas (12 orders, 18 cents.)

Scrambled sweetbreads in pasty borders (6 orders, 10 cents.)

Marrowfat peas (15 cents.)

Lima beans (dried, 1/2 lb, and seasonings, 5 cents.)

Corn and tomatoes (20 cents.)

Potatoes mashed, boiled (6 cents.)

Eve's pudding, raspberry butter sauce (No. 675; pudding 20; sauce 9; 29 cents.)

White cocoanut pie (No. 677; mering-ued pink with raspberry juice, 2 pies large, deep, 26 cents.)

Vanilla ice cream (32 cents.)

Cherries and currants (2 qts, 16 cents.)

Cake assorted (12 cents.)

Cheese, crackers, pickles, nuts, raisins (average, 30 cents.)

Milk 12, cream 15, coffee 6, tea, sugar 6, bread 6.

Total, $4 00; 30 persons; 131/3 cents a plate.

The colonel when at table, it would appear, is talkative and full of life and spirits. That's all right. He made the aemark that my consomme was exquisite but, was seasoned too highly with cay-enne, and of course I heard of it. No such thing. But that's all right. I'll bet he only said it to lead off to curries and his experiences in hot climates and his "hairbreath 'scapes by flood and field." That's all right too; we, all have our parts to play and get our work in when we can. Then, later on, he asked the manager, with whom he is already on terms of the utmost cordiality, why this was called Eve's pudding and the manager, laughing, said he would ask me. Now, a fellow does not want to be bothered with fool questions after scudding around the whole of a hot morning preparing a din-ner and then carving and serving it; still I did not tell them to go to thunder as cooks generally do under such circumstances - this house being too small for anybody to be mean in - but replied that the pudding is as old as the hills; one of the best ever was invented; the receipt has been put in rhyme like Sydney Smith's salad dressing; didn't known why it is called Eve's unless because it contains apples, and couldn't even see where that came in, Then the irrepressible colonel took a bill of fare and wrote on the back of it:

Eureka!

"The woman tempted me and I did eat."

The pudding tempted me and I did eat!

The manager showed it to me after dinner was over. That's all right. I'll keep it to fling at the next one asks me something I don't know. I'll have to save tenderloin steaks for the colonel.