It should be suspended in the air for a certain length of time, and then, after being carefully trussed, laid upon its breast in the pan, in order that all the juices of the body may concentrate in that titbit of the epicure,then let the knife touch its richly browned skin, and, presto, you have a dish fit for the gods!

His home is a movable point upon an area of twenty thousand square miles; his horse, the finest steed that he can find upon the Pampas between Buenos Ayres and the Andes, between the Gran Chaco and Cape Horn; his food, the first beef that he captures with his lasso; his dainties, the tongues of cows which he kills, and abandons, when he has stripped them of his favorite titbit, to the birds of prey.

The carver should be acquainted, too, with the choicest parts and morsels; and to give each guest an equal share of these titbits should be his maxim.

So, before they arrive, we must give the people of the Three Towns a real titbit of excitement.

The cauldron, filled with a mess of kid stewed in a multitude of onions, is fetched from the fire, and, being set upon a smooth board, is slid down the table to our host, who, after picking out some titbits for us, serves himself, and so slides it back, each man in turn picking out a morsel on the end of his knife.

He sits with a patient, disgusted face while we repeat, "Owen More had run away Owin' more than he could pay; Owen More came back one day Owin' more"; and when he can bear it no longer leaves the table remarking Titbits.

"The creatures keep great hampers," she declared, "that swallow up bottles of wine, cold chickens, and other titbits, fine linen, old clothes, oil, sugar, and candlesthe best pickings from a rich man's house.

Yet contemplative leisure called eagerly for constant titbits of romance to tickle the palate and furnish a diversion, while the genius of Christian poetry was yet in infantile weakness.

(This is put in as a titbit for the critic.)

Yet I ought not, even in a distant land, to fling an idle gibe against a gentleman of whom I really know nothing, except that the people under his charge bear all possible tokens of being tended and cared for as sedulously as if each of them sat by a warm fireside of his own, with a daughter bustling round the hearth to make ready his porridge and his titbits.

The preparations occupied several days, and we all assisted in the hunt for the oysters, shrimp, crabs, mao, and fish, going by twos and threes to the lagoon, the reef, the stream, and the hills for their rarest titbits.

(Pub. abroad in Titbits, Aug. 2-30, 1930 issues, as pt.14-18) © pt.14, 2Aug30, AI-14299; pt.15, 9Aug30, AI-14313; pt.16, 16Aug30, AI-14319; pt.17-18, 23-30Aug30, AI-14339; 26Jan31, A34178.

(Pub. abroad in Titbits, Aug. 2-30, 1930 issues, as pt.14-18) © pt.14, 2Aug30, AI-14299; pt.15, 9Aug30, AI-14313; pt.16, 16Aug30, AI-14319; pt.17-18, 23-30Aug30, AI-14339; 26Jan31, A34178.

I enquired of one of the warriors what they had done with the male prisoners: he coolly replied, they had all been eaten, except some "titbits," which had been packed up in the baskets and brought on shore, in order to regale particular friends and favourites!

The tiny dog picked up the titbit and wagged his tail.

[Footnote 32: A titbit.

since one day you took from me the mother, I, in my turn, will take the daughter and make her a titbit for the teeth of my blood-hounds.

You little realize, you tiny spinner of silken fabrics, how easily your gauzy structure may be broken, and all your work come to naught; for on the fence a catbird, scolding incessantly, has one eye open for a stray titbit in the shape of a little weaver of webs, and you may help to make him an early breakfast.

It concluded with the notice that visitors were prohibited from bringing any dogs with them at twelve o'clock (the hour for feeding the captive), as these animals would be sure to snap from the poor German all his titbits.