of mutton is of course a gigot, and we have identified an `ashet' as
an assiette. The `petticoat tails' she requested me to buy at the
confectioner's were somewhat more puzzling, but when they were
finally purchased by Susanna Crum they appeared to be ordinary
little cakes; perhaps, therefore, petits gastels, since gastel is an
old form of gateau, as was bel for beau. Susanna, on her part,
speaks of the wardrobe in my bedroom as an `awmry.' It certainly
contains no weapons, so cannot be an armoury, and we conjecture that
her word must be a corruption of armoire.

"That was a remarkable touch about the black-faced chop," laughed
Salemina, when Miss Diggity-Dalgety had retired; "not that I believe
they ever say it."

"I am sure they must," I asserted stoutly, "for I passed a flesher's
on my way home, and saw a sign with `Prime Black-Faced Mutton'
printed on it. I also saw `Fed Veal,' but I forgot to ask the cook
for it."

"We ought really to have kept house in Edinburgh," observed
Francesca, looking up from the Scotsman. "One can get a `self-
contained residential flat' for twenty pounds a month. We are such
an enthusiastic trio that a self-contained flat would be everything
to us; and if it were not fully furnished, here is a firm that
wishes to sell a `composite bed' for six pounds, and a `gent's
stuffed easy' for five. Added to these inducements there is
somebody who advertises that parties who intend `displenishing' at
the Whit Term would do well to consult him, as he makes a specialty
of second-handed furniture and `cyclealities.' What are
`cyclealities,' Susanna?" (She had just come in with coals.)