During the Tudor and Stuart reigns a fashionable gift at christenings was the apostle, so called because at the end of the handle was the figure of an apostle. 佚名.神奇的知识之书.
At christenings folk will even smuggle in a reel or two, if 'tis no further on than the first or second chiel. 托马斯·哈代.还乡.