The Red Cloud chief., 1880-12-09
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ne has been waiting quite
Oobliging waiter at once APP
Doached him. apologized for the delay
Every busy, you know-what did he
wish?'
'Are you deaf7'' asked the young
man. angrily.
well no. sir, i hope not"
''Then listen for the last time: Roast
-beef-rarer' he said, with startling
distinctncss of one
A few minutes afterward / heard the
stentorian voice of the kitchen fiend
yell:
-Four roast beefs, rare"
Then the four walters appeared, in
nocently enough, each with roast beef
for my young friend. Excuse me,
said the first waiter. 81 took this gen.
tleman's order"
IL should think you did, took it four
times" said the victim. BLAMED if
I'm going 10 take dinner where Pm
made fun of" and he showed back his
chair and strobe hotly out, leaving four
astoDished walters with fourroast beefs,
rare.
A friend of mine objects 10 a certain
grstaurant because they shout out the
order so that every n knows just
what a person dimes on.
"Tll take a spring chicken" says a
rural visitor.
LONE SPRING." yells the waiter.
One spring." cries some one further
on.
lone spring." echoes another from
the dim recesses beyond.
alt takes three springs to catch a
chicken here" said a mar at another
table. The rural visitor evidently
thought they kept chickens already
cooked. and he chafed at the long de-
lay. When the waiter at last brought
in the smoking fowl be said Grossly:
"a person would think you had to
cook the chicken, you were so long OF
coming"
Cook it." said the waiter. "why,
bless you, boss, | had TO chase dat
chicken free times round de back yard
wild a pole fore | cotch it,"
A little incident occurred n day
last week that impressed me very
much. and brought up some old recol.
l~ections that are apt TO lie dormant in
the busy, bustling life of a city. Only
one table was vacant. A young man
with a young woman stopped heSitat-
ingly at the wire door that led TO tbs
den of devouring humanity. Instantly
the proprietor opened the door, invited
them ir and placed them at the vacant
table, where | had an excellent view of
them. The young man had a noble
face; clear-cut, self-reliant, and some
thing about il that seemed TO inspire
confidence. The young lady had a
pale, sweet facc-a good facc-and
when she looked up tr%uthfully at her
comrade with n smile that said: "As
thou dinest SO shall | dine" i thought
she was his wife, but when she studied
over the bill of fare there was n resem-
blance that made me think she might
be his sister. When their waiter spread
the bOunties before them, they
reverently bowed their heads, shaded
the eyes and quietly offered up a silent
prayer. Among the hurrying to and
fro of walters, the clash of dishes, the
rattle of knives and forks, the shouting
of orders. the clanking of money and
the hurly-burly of a bustling restaurant
ANYTHING devotional seemed utterly
homogeneous. They evidently didn't
think so; if they gave the matter a
thought, they probably imagined that
each of us had said Grace" before we
began our dinners. But we hadn't. 1t
seemed to me like a breath from fields
and woods far away. 1t reminded me
that there are quiet, deep pools along
the river of life, where the rushing tide
of advanced opinion causes not N
ripple. There is no doubt n great deal
of religion in the city-although a
business man does not run across
enough of it to materially retard his
progress-still l think that like good
milk, pure butter and fresh vegetables
1--WE are dealing in restaurant similes),
the real gilt-edged article ome from
the country.-Luke Sharp, IN Dctroi'
Free Press.