A year-old cock, indeed, is fit for little else than to be converted into soup, while a hen at the same age, although sufficiently substantial, is not callous to the insinuations of a carving-knife.

Here is a grand dish for a knight of the carving-knife to exercise his skill upon, and, what will be pleasant for many to know, there is but little difficulty in the performance.

This done, he places chairs enough for the party, distributing them equally on each side of the table, and opposite to each a napkin neatly folded, within it a piece of bread or small roll, and a knife on the right side of each plate, a fork on the left, and a carving-knife and fork at the top and bottom of the table, outside the others, with the rests opposite to them, and a gravy-spoon beside the knife.

" "I shall see to it, first, that the carving-knife is well sharpened.

It was succeeded by a breathless pause, as Mrs. Cratchit, looking slowly all along the carving-knife, prepared to plunge it in the breast; but when she did, and when the long-expected gush of stuffing issued forth, one murmur of delight arose all round the board, and even Tiny Tim, excited by the two young Cratchits, beat on the table with the handle of his knife, and feebly cried, Hurrah!

"Where did you put carving-knife?

Where's carving-knife?" "No, no, Bert," said Mr. Culpepper, clutching at his sleeve.

And there stood the young girl, with a loaf in one hand and a carving-knife in the other.

"Here's the ordnance cairn, at last; andhere am I astride of a carving-knife, I think!

Certainly she did put to sleep two of my eyes, but the one in the middle of my forehead luckily kept awake!" "Will you have better things than we?" cried the envious mother; "then you shall lose the chance"; and so saying, she took a carving-knife and killed the goat dead.

And at the end of the gun gleamed a knife, about as long as a butcher's carving-knife.

"Is Brother Clark well?" inquired the jeweller, placing a chair for him at the table and taking up his carving-knife.

How well did I then enter into the feelings of a man I knew who, under similar provocation, got up from his bed, and, taking a carving-knife from the kitchen, quietly and deftly cut off the cock's head before the astonished bird had time to protest.

In reply to the question, whether she had ever witnessed any violence that led her to fear personal danger to her sister, she replied, that, on one occasion, Captain Wilde, being displeased at something in relation to the preparation of a meal, seized a large carving-knife and flung it at his wife, who only escaped further outrage by flying from the house.

I held on to the monster's tail, while Wragge severed its head with a carving-knife.

From his own lips came thrilling stories of his connection with the underground railway of slavery days; how he sent the sharpest carving-knife in the house, concealed in a basket of food, to a hidden fugitive slave who had vowed never to be taken alive, and whose master had come North in search of him.

The two sexes awaken two entirely distinct sets of feelings, and you would no more use the one for the other than you would put on your tiny teacups at breakfast, or lay the carving-knife by the butter-plate.

" He sat down to the table and ran his finger over the edge of the carving-knife.

" Bronson grabbed up carving-knife and fork.

" He was rushing out again with a carving-knife in his hand, when he came face to face with his grandmother and Aunt Allison.

The red paint on his face made him look as if he had been in a fight with the carving-knife he carried, and had had the skin peeled off his face in patches.

He shook the carving-knife at her, at which gesture she said "Pooh!" and applied herself to the roast mutton with avidity.

So great was the clamour, and so opprobrious were the epithets and terms applied to him, that the knight was eager to make his escape; but he met Cyprien in his way; and the droll young Gascon, holding a dish-cover in one hand, by way of buckler, and a long carving-knife in the other, in place of a sword, opposed his egress.

Be careful first to have your proper carving-knife; and next to consider the number of the company.

I took a carving-knife from off the table, and standing over her I brought it down gently on top of her head.