Two desert vultures, flying around over the desert, see a menu tossed out of a passing train. They acquire it and get an appetite for Rabbit Stew, the featured item of the day on the AT&SF diner-car.

Recipe adapted by Gayle B. Smith from a recipe in “Civil War Recipes, Receipts from the Pages of Godey’s Lady’s Book,” edited by Lily May Spaulding and John Spaulding, The University Press of Kentucky ...

These, I learned, were to cook the rabbit stew that was the communal meal that was the highlight of the hunt. We were a hunting party of four for the day, but there would be almost a hundred ...