salad-spoon

Updated: May 31, 2025

Father insisted on giving the evening over to wild ceremonies. He played "Juanita" and "Kelly with the Green Necktie," and other suitable chants upon that stately instrument, the mouth-organ, and marched through the tea-room banging on a dishpan with the wooden salad-spoon.

Sinclair Lewis - The Innocents: A Story for Lovers