"Adieu." Thus followed by his men, one bearing the head of Peter of Colfax upon the
platter of gold, Norman of Torn passed quietly from the hall and from the castle.
The Wizard triumphantly placed the
platter upon the table in the dining tent and then they all sat down in camp chairs to the feast.
The old woman, seeming to forget Maggie's hunger, poked the skewer into the pot with new vigor, and the younger crept under the tent and reached out some
platters and spoons.
There were vases, and figures of men and animals, and graven
platters and bowls, and mosaics of precious gems, and many other things.
The ice-cream was passed around with cake--gold and silver cake arranged on
platters in alternate slices; it had been made and frozen during the afternoon back of the kitchen by two black women, under the supervision of Victor.
Grace being said, -- for those people have their grace as well as we --though Queequeg told me that unlike us, who at such times look downwards to our
platters, they, on the contrary, copying the ducks, glance upwards to the great Giver of all feasts --Grace, I say, being said, the High Priest opens the banquet by the immemorial ceremony of the island; that is, dipping his consecrated and consecrating fingers into the bowl before the blessed beverage circulates.
Upon these platters he placed two goodly portions of the contents of the pie, thus imparting the unusual interest to the entertainment that each partaker scooped out the inside of his plate, and consumed it with his other fare, besides having the sport of pursuing the clots of congealed gravy over the plain of the table, and successfully taking them into his mouth at last from the blade of his knife, in case of their not first sliding off it.
When dinner was done, and when what remained of the platters and what remained of the congealed gravy had been put back into what remained of the pie, which served as an economical investment for all miscellaneous savings, Riderhood filled the mug with beer and took a long drink.
The smaller sorts of wild-fowl, of which there was abundance, were not served up in
platters, but brought in upon small wooden spits or broaches, and offered by the pages and domestics who bore them, to each guest in succession, who cut from them such a portion as he pleased.
After grace was said, and while the servants clattered in with the meat
platters, Robin stood up and said:
An' then we needna part the
platters an' things, as ha' stood on the shelf together sin' afore thee wast born."
The main part of my bino mount is a
platter similar to the azimuth part of a Dobsonian telescope base.