Nothing to Eat

NOTHING TO EAT - By Horatio Alger and Thomas Chandler Haliburton - NOT By the Author of “Nothing to Wear”

“I'll nibble a little at what I have got.”

—“My appetite's none of the best. And so I must pamper the delicate thing." —The least mite will suffice: A side bone and dressing and bit of the breast. The tip of the rump—that's it—and one of the fli's" - {Illustration: “PROTESTING, EXCUSING, AND SWEARING A VOW, SHE'D NOTHING WORTH EATING TO GIVE US FOR DINNER."} NEW YORK 1857 Entered according to the Act of Congress, in the year 1857, by EDWARD O. JENKINS, in the Clerk's Office of the District Court for the Southern District of New York.

Respectfully Dedicated TO ALL LADIES “DYING WITH DYSPEPSIA. “Where fashion and folly are all of a suit.” BY A JOLLY GOOD NATURED AUTHOR.

NOTHING TO EAT. - Not by the Author of “Nothing to Wear.”

The Argument

The Proof—the Queen of Fashion

The Object aimed at.

What another Poet did.

How the Author sometimes Dines.