"All the luxuries of the coming season, printed on a card usually about a foot long.

A great variety, and very difficult to understand.

When I had finished trying to translate the morning paper, I used to attack the card.

I found that it threw quite a light upon early American civilisation from the aboriginal side.

'Hominy,' 'Grits,' 'Buckwheats,' 'Cantelopes,' are some of the dishes I remember.