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Inangahua Times, Volume II, Issue II, 8 October 1880, Page 2

\Vhatc;in there be in the atmosphere of the Melbourne Club which has drmnrlised Mr Eugene Dumaa? Mr. Dumas was a chef de ; jjuisine of eminence, a cordon blue^fifd as *ucb moved in the best society of his native p.r's. He U the author of BPierat valuable works upoo cookery, and narrowly escaped being a member cf the Academy. No* sooner however does lie gefc into the kitchen of the Melbourne Club thin his whole nature change s. He becamo morose, gloomy and despairing. He inveighs against squfltterdnm like any Liberal, and coranare* himself fo Promotheus on his rock, or Virgil iv exile. After some d»ys of strange behavior during which he is the terror of the chamber-maids and the butt of the^gentlemen ia plush. Monsieur Dumns fl j d from his stewpins, and caUing himself Captain Drumming burst upon *he town as a man of fashion. He cashed valueless cb>ques with ease and freedom- for some weeks un il in an unlucky moment — there; is an evil instaa f . when rvery Frtn-hman'satar is eclipsed — he was arrested and lodged in gao l . There i he explained to the gooi father who attended him the reason for his wild conduct ' I was fool, mad,' he said, I know not what to do. The gross beasts they crisp me the nerves I make soup a la Marongo, all the same. I make .teudron* de veal a la j irdinere — nviguiGqne !— all tbe same. I dres3 fish a la Portugaise, a la Morm^lie, a la Bechamel — all lie same I makesoufl'e that nrse ze dead — they gobblehim and speak no^ I last try my fricandaaa which the Emperor so low