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. That everything might be answerable
to the magnificence of this delicate feast, he had provided vast
quantifies of strong beer, flip, rumbo, and burnt brandy, with
plenty of Barbadoes water for the ladies; and hired all the fiddles
within six miles, which, with the addition of a drum, bagpipe, and
Welsh harp, regaled the guests with a most melodious concert.

The company, who were not at all exceptions, seemed extremely well
pleased with every particular of the entertainment; and the evening
being spent in the most social manner, the bride was by her sister
conducted to her apartment, where, however, a trifling circumstance
had like to have destroyed the harmony which had been hitherto
maintained.

I have already observed, that there was not one standing bed within
the walls; therefore the reader will not wonder that Mrs. Trunnion
was out of humour, when she found herself under the necessity of