CHAPTER IX

DINNER (_continued_)

French soup--A regimental dinner--A city banquet--_Baksheesh_--Aboard ship--An ideal dinner--Cod's liver--Sleeping in the kitchen--A _fricandeau_--Regimental messes--Peter the Great--Napoleon the Great--Victoria--The Iron Duke--Mushrooms--A medical opinion--A North Pole banquet--Dogs as food--Plain unvarnished fare--The Kent Road cookery--More beans than bacon 97-110