"Ought to wear a bib with pink ribbons, so he ought.

"These got bibs and nice long strings, cover you all up while you're cooking.

Isadore, already astride his chair, well into center-table, for first vociferous tear at the four-pound loaf; Esther Kantor, old at chores, settled an infant into the high chair, careful of tiny fingers in lowering the wooden bib.

This going to Brigade Headquarters meant putting on a clean bib, as it were; for it was here that the Brigadier himself lived, and after a machine-gun séance it was generally necessary to have tea in the farm with the Brigade staff.

Is there no small-beer there, that you go coughing and staining your bib over wine forbidden?