You feed the strop into it like paper into a printing-press, and it eats up the leather as low people eat spaghetti, making all the time a noise like a mowing-machine.

It was as if someone had mentioned spaghetti to the relict of an Italian organ-grinder.

* Chicken with Spaghetti Prepare the spaghetti by boiling about three pounds in salted water for twenty minutes.