Procure six fine, fat woodcocks, pick, singe, and draw them, putting the hearts and livers on a plate for further use. Take out the eyes, and remove the skin from the heads ; truss up the feet, skewer them with the bill, and tie a barde of fat pork around the breasts ; then chop up all the hearts and livers very fine, with one tea-spoonful of chives, half a pinch of salt, a third of a pinch of pepper, and a teaspoonful of butter. Prepare six bread canapes (No. 832), two and a half inches long, by one and a half wide ; fry them for two minutes in very hot fat, drain them thoroughly, and cover each canape with some of the above mixture, spreading a little fresh bread-crumbs and a very little butter over ; place them in a small baking-pan and lay aside. Now put the woodcocks in a roasting-pan with a little butter well spread over the birds, and roast them in a brisk oven for ten minutes. Two minutes before they are done, put the canapes in the oven, then take both out, and lay the canapes on a hot dish ; untie the birds, and arrange them over the canapes, decorating the dish with a little watercress. Strain the gravy into a sauce-bowl, and serve it separately.