Eventually she purchased a capon for the Sunday dinner, paid for it, and bade Mr. Druitt good-by.
"The Devil's Garden"
W. B. Maxwell
In a poem by Gascoigne, published in 1575, there is an allusion to rent-day gifts, which appear to have been general in the olden time: "And when the tenants come to pay their quarter's rent, They bring some fowle at Midsummer, a dish of fish in Lent, At Christmasse a capon, and at Michaelmasse a goose."
"England in the Days of Old"
William Andrews
Do take a wing of this capon-just a bit of white meat.
"Monsieur Cherami"
Charles Paul de Kock