Neither were the other parts of the entertainment neglected by this
ingenious contriver, who produced undeniable proofs of his elegance
and art in the wedding-supper, which had been committed to his
management and direction. This genial banquet was entirely composed
of sea-dishes; a huge pillaw, consisting of a large piece of beef
sliced, a couple of fowls, and half a peck of rice, smoked in the
middle of the board: a dish of hard fish, swimming in oil, appeared at
each end; the sides being furnished with a mess of that savoury
composition known by the name of lub's-course, and a plate
of salmagundy. The second course displayed a goose of a monstrous
magnitude, flanked with two Guinea-hens, a pig barbacued, a hock
of salt pork, in the midst of a pease-pudding, a leg of mutton
roasted, with potatoes, and another boiled, with yams. The third
service was made up of a loin of fresh pork, with apple-sauce, a
kid smothered with onions, and a terrapin baked in the shell; and
last of all, a prodigious sea-pie was presented, with an infinite
volume of pancakes and fritters.
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