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Rh Biscuit.—Same as for cake (above) except make the sign for "warm" or "hot" instead of for "sweet," as follows: Hold the right hand over mouth and draw away quickly as if the hand were warm or hot.

Pie.—Place the bent right hand down against the left palm so the fingers point toward the left; lift the right hand, turn it so the fingers point straight out and let the hand drop on the palm again and the two lines thus made will indicate the size and shape of a slice of pie. XVI, 315.

Doughnut.—Bite "R" between the teeth.

Toast.—With the right "V" hand used as a fork "stab" first against the back of the left open hand, then against the palm of same.

Pickle.—Make sign for "sour" (carry the forefinger of the right "G" hand to the mouth and make a slight puckering thereof); then down the length of the forefinger of the left "G" hand draw the end of the right forefinger as if to split it.

Cracker.—Throw the right "S" hand against the left elbow, holding the left "S" hand up near the right shoulder. XVI, 316.

Oysters.—Hold the hands palm to palm; draw the right hand away and up; then with a motion like cutting with a hatchet throw the right hand downward against and beyond the left so that the palms rub as the hands pass. XVI, 317.

Soup.—Making a bowl with the left hand and a spoon with the right, make a motion of dipping the soup from the left hand to the mouth with the right.

Sugar.—Draw the end of the open right hand downward across the mouth.

Nut.—Bite the end of the right thumb of "A" hand, nail down, and strike the top of the left "S" hand with the right "S."

Peanut.—Sign for "nut;" then with the thumb and forefinger of the right hand grasp the end of the forefinger of the left "G" hand and give a twisting motion as in breaking the end of a peanut.

Apple.—Place the right "S" hand at the corner of the mouth, so that the middle joint of the forefinger touches it, and give the hand a twisting motion several times. XVI, 318.

Peach.—Bring the hands, one from either side, to the mouth, making "&" with both of them; or,