[FN#618] Meats are rarely coloured in modern days; but Persian cooks are great adepts in staining rice for the "Pul á o (which we call after its Turkish corruption "pilaff"): it sometimes appears in rainbow-colours, red, yellow and blue; and in India is covered with gold and silver leaf. Europe retains the practice in tinting Pasch (Easter) eggs, the survival of the mundane ovum which was hatched at Easter-tide; and they are dyed red in allusion to the Blood of Redemption.
[FN#619] As I have noticed, this is a mixture.
[FN#620] We say:--
Tis rare the father in the son we see: He sometimes rises in the third degree.
[FN#621] Arab. "Ball á n" i.e. the body-servant: "Ball á nah" is a tire-woman.
[FN#622] Arab. "Darabukkah" a drum made of wood or earthen-ware (Lane, M. E., xviii.), and us
