This day I had a whole doe sent me by Mr. Hozier, which is a fine present, and I had the Umbles of it for dinner.
"Diary of Samuel Pepys, Complete Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript In The Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge By The Rev. Mynors Bright"
Samuel Pepys Commentator: Lord Braybrooke
When he dined out, he says that his host gave him "the meanest dinner of beef, shoulder and Umbles of venison, and a few pigeons, and all in the meanest manner that ever I did see, to the basest degree."
"A Duet"
A. Conan Doyle