"Are youare you eating that kipper with your fingers?" Gladys turned and eyed her mother appealingly.

Only the other day I called her 'a saucy little kipper,' and the way she went on, anybody would have thought I'd insulted her.

"Are youare you eating that kipper with your fingers?" Gladys turned and eyed her mother appealingly.

Only the other day I called her 'a saucy little kipper,' and the way she went on, anybody would have thought I'd insulted her.

There are several interesting kinds of Herring, but we will first look at the one we know so well, which is such good food, either fresh or as dried "kipper" or "bloater.

However, a visit to a fishmonger's shop had made him acquainted with the haddock, the kipper, and likewise the humble bloater; and occasionally, I believe, when his appetite needed a stimulant he turned to the smoked fish, which seemed so novel to his palate.

For her part, she most certainly would not eat haddock or kippers for dinner; she had too much self-respect to do such a thing, so she boiled or roasted a leg of mutton for her own repast and the maids'.

"I had his tea a' ready an' a bit buttered toast an' a kipper, but he never cam' in.

The bill of fare opens with "Kipper meat on toast"; it proceeds with a fine crescendo to "Beef á la jardinière," followed by "Fried macaroni," and declining gracefully on "Cabinet pudding.

"Kipper on toast" is not nearly so rich in carbohydrates, calories and aplanatic amygdaloids as "Kipper meat."

"Kipper on toast" is not nearly so rich in carbohydrates, calories and aplanatic amygdaloids as "Kipper meat."

At the first bewildering '"Q?" from that steely-fronted maid the ritual overpowers you and you bow before porridge, kippers, bacon and eggs, stewed fruit, marmalade, toast, more toast, more marmalade, as helpless as the rabbit before the proverbial boaexcept that in this case the rabbit swallows its own asphyxiator.

Tolbridge had actually fallen back upon Kipper.

Kipper was a caterer in Thorbury, and a good one.

"Kipper, indeed," thought the old lady; "that is the last peg.

And positively," she continued, in inward speech, as the maid presented the bread and butter, "Kipper's biscuit!

She knew Kipper's charges; she knew everybody's charges.

"This makes three dollars," thought Miss Panney, as she helped herself, "for Kipper never makes any difference, even if you send your own lettuce to be dressed."

" The dainty concoction to which the blazing-eyed old lady now applied herself was something she had never before tasted, and she became of the opinion that Kipper would not get up a dish of that sort, and so much of it, for less than two dollars.

" "I did not order coffee," said Mrs. Tolbridge, "because we don't take it in the middle of the day, but" "You ordered quite enough," said her visitor, severely; "and I will say this for Kipper, that he never got up a better meal, although" "Kipper!" interrupted Mrs. Tolbridge.

" "I did not order coffee," said Mrs. Tolbridge, "because we don't take it in the middle of the day, but" "You ordered quite enough," said her visitor, severely; "and I will say this for Kipper, that he never got up a better meal, although" "Kipper!" interrupted Mrs. Tolbridge.

"Kipper had nothing to do with this luncheon.

The mere word "kipper" has every girl in the gallery in a tittering ecstasy.

At a blast on whistle the cab-drivers will down tea-cups, cake, kippers or what-not, and double smartly on to parade.

Indeed, it has been reported that when he was young he sometimes "leistered a kipper, and made a shift to shoot a moorfowl i' the drift."