Excerpt from The Chafing-Dish Supper The chafing-dish began its career in the hands of the bachelors. With them it was a substitute for a hearthstone, and supplemented by cosey bachelor apartments and a good club, measurably consoled them for the domestic joys most of them neither missed nor desired. Assisted by the chafing-dish, they could - and often did - not only "welcome cheerful evening in," but also see it out in a blaze of glory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Excerpt from The Chafing-Dish Supper With them it was a substitute for a hearthstone, and supplemented by cosey bachelor apartments and a good club, measurably consoled them for the domes tic joys most of them neither missed nor desired. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.