[Illustration: CRUMPETS.] 1728.

To toast them, have ready a very bright clear fire; put the crumpet on a toasting-fork, and hold it before the fire, not too close, until it is nicely brown on one side, but do not allow it to blacken.

Muffins and crumpets should always be served on separate dishes, and both toasted and served as expeditiously as possible.

Allow 2 crumpets to each person.

The poor dear is nearly balmy in the crumpet from worry.

" His eyes, travelling downwards, had caught sight of a cup pushed close to the blaze, and a plate of crumpets beside it.

"Eat your crumpets, boy!"

"Have a crumpet!" "Eat 'em yourself!" said Sir Beverley.

" Piers turned his whole attention to devouring crumpets, and there fell a lengthy silence.

"The Crumpet Buildings.

"Not about the Crumpet Buildings?

You live upon mock-turtle, and stewed rumps of beef; I dined, yesterday, upon crumpets.

" "What do you want with it?" asked the gentlewoman abruptly, and as he was plainly at a loss she added, "Crumpets or tea-cake?" "Tea-cake," he replied, though he hated tea-cake.

I was obliged to simply bolt my crumpet like a Frenchman, to keep it from being snatched from me.

And Elk Street, instead of giving him the credit which was his due, preferred to ascribe the change in his behaviour to what they called being "a bit barmy on the crumpet.

Mr. Sweeting at the tea-table, "having a dish of tarts before him, and marmalade and crumpet upon his plate", should have moved the Comic Spirit to tears of gentleness.

Pickwick, story of the man who ate crumpets, iii. 384, n. 4.

SEE Turrou, Leon G. WODEHOUSE, P. G. Eggs, beans, and crumpets.

Two widely distributed rodents; The barefaced lie and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone and a crumpet, peering out of the tiffin.

Two widely distributed rodents: the barefaced lie (left) and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone (left) and a crumpet peering out of the tiffin.

SEE Turrou, Leon G. WODEHOUSE, P. G. Eggs, beans, and crumpets.

Two widely distributed rodents; The barefaced lie and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone and a crumpet, peering out of the tiffin.

Two widely distributed rodents: the barefaced lie (left) and the white lie; The common carrier; A scone (left) and a crumpet peering out of the tiffin.

And thus I choked the thought that you Were barmy on the crumpet.