[Sca-cooks] Pinnacle Peak

[Robin Carroll-Mann]

Susan Fox wrote:

> "`May I give you a slice?' she said, taking up the knife and fork, and 
> looking from one Queen to the other.
>
> "`Certainly not,' the Red Queen said, very decidedly: `it isn't 
> etiquette to cut any one you've been introduced to. Remove the joint!'"
>
>
> Selene Colfox

OH MY GOODNESS!  [insert image of giant lightbulb here]

I don't know how many times I've read that passage, and this is the 
first time I realized the double meaning of "cut".  (And I read a lot of 
Regencies, too.)

-- 

Brighid ni Chiarain
Barony of Settmour Swamp, East Kingdom
Robin Carroll-Mann *** rcmann4 at earthlink.net