Crossword-Solution: OXTAIL 6 letters, 36 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 13

CHAPTER XIII PERFECTION OF THE HOUSE “One mockturtle, clear; one oxtail; two glasses of port.” In the upper room at French’s, where a Forsyte could still get heavy English food, James and his son were sitting down to lunch.

May I ask you to be so kind as to inquire of all your subjects if any of them have seen a fishing hook lost in the sea?” “Certainly,” said the obliging Sea King, “I will immediately summon them all here and ask them.” As soon as he had issued his command, the octopus, the cuttlefish, the bonito, the oxtail fish, the eel, the jelly fish, the shrimp, and the plaice, and many other fishes of all kinds came in and sat down before Ryn Jin their King, and arranged themselves and their fins in order.

The Baked Bean Chant, the Vermicelli Waltz, the Mush and Milk March, the sad and touchful Pumpkin Pie Refrain, the gay and rollicking Oxtail Soup Gallop, and the melting Ice Cream Serenade will yet be common musical names.

Our host, C--, was famous for his kangaroo soup; this is made of the tail of the animal, and when well prepared may vie with any oxtail, if, indeed, it be not superior, having the advantage of a game flavor.

One of the boys procured a lot of bran and unbolted flour and at twelve o'clock at night we sat down at our Christmas dinner (oxtail soup and biscuit), and if I ever enjoyed a meal I enjoyed that one.