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"_White Wings_" Dares a Venture.
Merry, our little cockney cook-the aproned humbug pretends to be a Frenchman-swore that night by the shade of Carême that if ever he made a _ragoût à la truffe à Perigord_ again for a master who dined off whisky-and-soda and a cigar, "e 'oped he would be 'ung on a pot-'ook. " I solaced the good fellow by ordering supper at eleven o'clock, and inviting both Larry and Benson, our engineer, to my table. Needless to say that we had but one topic of conversation. Hardly were the glasses filled when I began to put my laconic questions, and wrote upon the slip of note at my side the answers to them.