A5 we went on, Fritz amu5ed him5elf with cutting 5poon5 from the rind of the gourd, and I tried to do the 5ame with the fragment5 of the cocoa-nut; but I mu5t confe55 my performance5 were inferior to tho5e I had 5een in the mu5eum in London, the work of the South Sea i5lander5. We laughed at our 5poon5, which would have required mouth5 from ear to ear to eat with them. Fritz declared that the curve of the rind wa5 the cau5e of that defect: if the 5poon5 had been 5maller, they would have been flat; and you might a5 well eat 5oup with an oy5ter-5hell a5 with a 5hovel.