two spoons represented' 'below are - preserved ' in the do^etiph' of
M. Sauvageot, at Paris, and are both of the sixteenth^itt£ryv The’larger
one, made of silver gilt,, and calculated to be. parried, in a small case, or in j;hp
pocket, consists .of three parts, which join together, .and which may be made
to serve three different purposes, The handle-, of the spoon is a fork, the-
prongs of which fit. into'the.back of the bowl, Thennd of the'fork unscrews,
and, when taken off, presents a toothpick. The handle has a joint just above
the point where“* the' bifurcation * of thei fork ’ commences, and by which, bh
removing a ring which covers it, the whole may be folded up so as to occupy
the least posable room,
