The New Zealand Railways Magazine, Volume 4, Issue 12 (April 1, 1930)
Whale-Bones
Whale-Bones.
“You, boy over in the corner!” Thus the brutal examiner to the nervous-looking pupil in the class. The boy over in the corner shot up like a bolt. “Answer this,” continued the examiner. “Do we eat the flesh of the whale?”
“Y-y-yes, sir,” faltered the scholar.
“And what do you do with the bones?”
“P-p-please, sir,” responded the nervous one, with chattering teeth, “we 1-leave them on the s-side of our p-plates.”