text:  "You may see it plucked and ready trussed for the spit on the same stall at which hawks crows jackdaws jays magpies hedgehogs frogs snails and buzzards are offered for sale to the passing conoscenti"--a catalogue of dainties which bears but a small proportion to a more extended _carte raisonnee_ elsewhere given by Mr Waterton who verily believes that "scarcely any thing which has had life in it comes amiss to the Italians in the way of food except the Hanoverian rat