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Then he turned his awful gaze on the small servant who almost shrank before it. "Liffie, my dear." "Y-yes, sir." "Bring me a table-spoon, the biggest one you have." "Yes, sir," she said, and vanished. Presently she returned with an enormous gravy spoon. "Ha! ha!" shouted the captain, with much of his old fire; "that's better than I had hoped for! Hand it here, Liffie; it'll do."
Again, a nurse is ordered to give a patient a tea-cup full of some article of food every three hours. The patient's stomach rejects it. If so, try a table-spoon full every hour; if this will not do, a tea-spoon full every quarter of an hour. I am bound to say, that I think more patients are lost by want of care and ingenuity in these momentous minutiæ in private nursing than in public hospitals.
For he remembered that last year they had shown him three tiny bantam chicks, such darling little things, all cuddled cosily together in the hollow of a silver table-spoon.
These he held up to view, and with animated words and gesticulations explained that this was the grave of a white man, not of a native. The articles he brought out were a pewter plate and a silver table-spoon. "There's a name of some kind written here," said Bolton, as he carefully scrutinized the spoon. "Look here, Fred, your eyes are better than mine, see if you can make it out."
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