text:  How much of the natural habits and manners of a country and of the circumstances and inner life of the various classes of its inhabitants is to be learned from a study of their cookery! Reader what a mystery hangs over the _handling_ of a fat beast! A feeder approaches a well filled short-horn--he touches it here--he pinches it there--he declares it to have many good _points_ about it; but pronounces the existence of defects where the uninitiated see only beauties