Pass the chow-chow, mother.

As he strolled homeward along a stately avenue, wondering what he could do to avert the retribution that moved toward the Downeys, and finding that his assistant city-editor's resourcefulness availed him naught, he heard the scamper of feet behind him and whirled about with cane upraised in time to bring a snarling chow dog to a stand.

" "It's near chow-time.

We'll put the beet salad by the chicken and the cabbage salad by the ham and the chow-chow betwixt 'em.

CHOW MEIN Cut in 1-inch strips 1 pound fresh pork or white meat of chicken, or lobster or crab meat, and cook in frying pan 5 minutes with 2 tablespoons fat.

They are fed on "chow patties," a mixture of hay, grains and other forage, and are allowed a certain number for each meal.

Soldiers had come down from the chow city, two-score li inland, and charging through the streets, hacking and slashing the infested air, had driven the goblins over the walls, with a great shout of victory.