In the course of Lady Bornwell's intrigue with Kickshaw he is taken blindfold to the house of the procuress, Decoy, who, in the guise of a doting crone, leads him to a chamber where he imagines he is to meet a succubus, whilst the Lady, unknown to him, entertains him herself.

When merry Yule Day comes, I trow, You'll scantlins find a hungry mou; Sma' are our cares, our stamacks fou O' gusty gear And kickshaws, strangers to our view Sin' fairn-year.

Kickshaws, delicacies.

They are the very kickshaws and foppery of friendship.

We have a good, stout, manly supper,no Apician kickshaws, the triumphs of palate-science,no nightingales' tongues, no peacocks' brains, no French follies,but just a rasher or so, in its naked and elegant simplicity.

My wife must eat plain food, and I don't love kickshaws.

Whilst the hunter was seeing to his nag, the squire thus addressed his serving man: "Some pigeons, Davy, a couple of short-legged hens, a joint of mutton, and any pretty tiny kickshaws, tell William cook."

" By this time the cold capon and the venison pasty, as well as the "little tiny kickshaws," together with a gallon of "good sherris-sack," had been considerably reduced by the united efforts of the squire, the famished hunter, and those below the salt.

A wondrous attractive meal even in so far as judged by our simple lights, but with its garnishments a positive feast, for withal the table was strewn with dishes of burnt almonds, crystallised fruits, chocolates and such toothsome kickshaws, whilst the unstinted supply of champagne which accompanied the courses was succeeded by a noble array of liqueur bottles from which choice could be made in the drinking of toasts.

Absolutely everybody seemed to be lunching at Kickshaw's yesterday!

Look what they pay for their silks and satins and kickshaws and silly furbelows!

Mr. Whitelaw's notion of tea was a solid meal, which left him independent of the chances of supper, and yet open to do something in that way; in case any light kickshaw, such as liver and bacon, a boiled sheep's head, or a beef-steak pie, should present itself to his notice.

With responsibilitynot merely for commas and niceties and literary kickshaws, but in its old sensedisappears also a portion of the interest of editorial labour.

But Musgrave, in his sturdy, common-sense way, only laughed at her seriousness over such kickshaws.

Leave fooling, Lilly, I am hungry now, and th'hast another Kickshaw, I must taste it.

Lilly? Th'art such a wittie thing to draw me on. Leave fooling, Lilly, I am hungry now, And th' hast another Kickshaw, I must tast it.

Chippy Havilland was at one of Kickshaw's Jazz dinners one night, where people fly out of their seats to one-step and two-step between the courses and during the courses and all the time.

The "Penny Magazine" for 1842 has a good and suggestive paper on "Feasts and Entertainments," with extracts from some of the early dramatists and a woodcut of "a new French cook, to devise fine kickshaws and toys."

Every day saw on that board a noble joint of boiled beef, not to the exclusion of lighter kickshaws; but the beef was indispensable, just as the bouilli still is in some provinces of France.

she has been making kickshaws all day, and looks as if she came out of a bandbox!