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After a few awkward attempts at the knife and fork, he found himself falling behind, and repeating the old adage which is often quoted to cover the same style among our white urchins of picking a chicken-bone, 'that fingers were made before knives and forks, he proceeded with real gusto, and much good humor, to make up his lost time upon all parts of the dinner.
It is just possible that you may not be able, so soon as convenient, to to get yourself drowned, or choked with a chicken-bone, or or hung, or bitten by a but stay! Here! I say Tom! Peter!
His presence was always hailed with a welcome, and to every new comer he was formally presented. His bearing became, at last, not only assured, but patronizing. He received the gift of a chicken-bone or a delicate titbit as if he conferred a favor. He became an epicure, a gourmet. He did not eat much; he ate well.
In short, there is nothing like Greek for a genuine sensation-paper. In the present case your application is the most obvious thing in the world. Rap out the sentence, with a huge oath, and by way of ultimatum at the good-for-nothing dunder-headed villain who couldn't understand your plain English in relation to the chicken-bone. He'll take the hint and be off, you may depend upon it."
"Then the fellow really intends evil?" asked the monk, as he laid down a chicken-bone, for he always ate with his fingers. "I fear he does," was my reply. "But Her Majesty wonders why you should trouble. She says that you, being sent as Russia's saviour, are immune from bodily harm."
"Look! Ugh!" Roger and Ruth, peering around her shoulder, caught sight of a pair of gleaming eyes piercing through the darkness. "It's a cat!" cried Roger, reassuringly. "But how in the world did you succeed in keeping it there?" "I tied a chicken-bone to a stone," answered Miss Phillips. "And nothing will induce pussy to leave."
'Come quickly, O death! but be sure and don't let me see you coming, lest the pleasure I shall feel at your appearance should unfortunately bring me back again to life. This you may slip in quite a propos when you are struggling in the last agonies with the chicken-bone. Write! 'Il pover 'huomo che non se'n era accorto, Andava combattendo, e era morto.
"That's Italian, you perceive from Ariosto. It means that a great hero, in the heat of combat, not perceiving that he had been fairly killed, continued to fight valiantly, dead as he was. The application of this to your own case is obvious for I trust, Miss Psyche, that you will not neglect to kick for at least an hour and a half after you have been choked to death by that chicken-bone.
Now, it so happened that Contenta, who had been keeping the baron company at his breakfast, had carried off into the garden a very nice chicken-bone which her master had given her. So she sat down under a rose-tree to eat it. But she did not remain there long before Wishie spied her out.
But if you regard her as only animal, you must at least accept her as a perfect one. Her mouth is large, but I never saw such red lips, full and red and dewy. Her forehead is low and square, but milky smooth, and I know she could crack a chicken-bone between those white teeth of hers. Even her tongue, I noticed, is a watermelon red. She must be healthy.
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