Mr Schontz used to include a soup bone without being asked.

"There's a word for the people running the subways these day and it is soup bones," Mrs. Stokes said.

I peered over the edge of the bed: it looked like a raw soup bone.

Another exhibit includes a remarkable three-masted ship made out of soup bones by prisoners in the War of 1812.

Line of 60 people for soup bones.

Somebody else said, "In the car with a soup bone."

Traditionally, soup bones were added for taste and thickening.

Also available by mail at $1.10 a pound for soup bones to $39.50 for fillets.

He wore slippers without socks and all the hair had been worn away from his ankles, which were narrow and white, like soup bones.

Kevin's face turned red, and he chewed the toothpick in his mouth like some mongrel dog who had just found a soup bone.