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Let's conclude this Kickshaws column with two examples.

In the kitchen there was a great quantity of frogs among the dishes; adders' skins, with little children's fingers inside; salad of mushroom-seed; wet mice's snouts and hemlock; beer, from the brewery of the old Witch of the Moor; sparkling saltpetre wine from a grave-cellar,-- all very substantial eating: rusty nails and church-window glass were among the delicacies and kickshaws.

Curry was not uncommon in Birmingham restaurants and even Mrs Beeton - that quintessentially English manager of the household - had recipes for what she called 'kickshaws' in her cookery book.

This eulogy for a eu-logologist, sent to Kickshaws Jan.'17, was unused.

Since the much-regretted demise of Kickshaws, I shall be using this title for my kickshaws as a sort of regular 'column'.

I've counted over 200 articles under my name, plus some Kickshaws columns, and various offerings in Colloquy.

In a Kickshaws item entitled The Disappearing Doubles (Word Ways November 2009 p 281), I removed A to Z pairs of doubled letters from a word to form a new word.

This Kickshaws colu(mn is dedicated to the memory of Ross Eckler, a giant in the field of wordplay, a person who knew the English language and a vast number pf amazing words.

Jeff Grant writes: Well done on another excellent Kickshaws. I heartily endorse Jim Puder's comments-THANKS for all your efforts over the past 30 years (where does the time go?).

"One of the two attachments to this email is a page of items for Kickshaws, if you can use them.

"Kickshaws") and the November 1977 issues of Word Ways.

As I have belatedly remembered, several pairs of complete palindromic charade sentences were presented almost 40 years ago by James Rambo in an article in the November 1977 Word Ways and in the February 1977 "Kickshaws." Here are two of his better examples:

Recently in Word Ways, in Kickshaws and in the article presenting the entries in Dave Morice's geographical- names palindrome contest, there have appeared several remarkable new palindromes which it seems to me ought not to be let pass without being commented upon.

Jim wonders, "Is it time yet to uncork Kickshaws' quadrennial spate of presidential election palindromes?

I especially enjoyed the Shortz contest Puder's books ad (I may avail myself of some of them.), Eckler's trigrams, Kickshaws as usual, Dave's palindrome contest, your Melencolia, the Grant and Kahan puzzles, Ray Love's Playful Poems and Danyl Francis' new isograms.