Mary Killen Mary Killen

Dear Mary… | 4 February 2006

Etiquette advice from The Spectator's Miss Manners

issue 04 February 2006

Q. Speaking of pellets, as you did last week, may I ask something else? Whenever I have eaten birds, it has always been quite an informal occasion where one didn’t have to worry about, well, what to do with shot. One could simply more or less neatly take it out of one’s mouth.

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