Weekly graphic. [volume] (Kirksville, Adair Co., Missouri) 1880-1949, 1882-08-11
AN OYSTER YARS.
A California Lady's Experience o.
the New York Bivalves,

never found anything but once here
in excess of my expectations, or ever
approaching them, and that was the
New York oysters. l had Just ther
come from California, where oyster.
are very small and unimportant, no,
to say Insignificant, and l had otter
eaten a hundred there at a time, and
had always felt that l could eat more il
had them. So when arrived at the
Metropolitan Hotel ordered my din.
ner to be served in my room, and told
the waiter to bring with my dinner =
strong cup ofcoffee and 100 raw oysters
He looked at me a moment and then
said:
"Did understand you to say 1oc
oystersa'
"Yes," answered ''raw, on the
half shell with vinegar no lemons and
as soon as you can, for l am very hun.
cry"
"Ahem Miss, do you want 1oe z"
"Yes, do. What are yon waiting
for ! Must l pay for them in advance
Iwant nice large ones"
"No, no, Miss. All right. you shall
have them," and he went out. con.
tinued my writing, and forgot all about
my dinner tillhe knocked and came in
with my dinner on tray, but no oyst.
ers.
GLOW is this 2" said /. There are
no oysters.
"Dey's comm, Miss, dey's comm, /"
and the door opened and in filed three
more sons of Afric's burning sands,
each with big tray of oysters on the
half shell. Twas staggered, but only
for a moment, l saw the walters were
grinnlng so, l calmly directed them to
place one on a chair, one on the
wash stand and one one the bed and
said:
"Ihey are very small aren't they!"
lob, no Miss, de berry largest we.
re got"
"verv WE'LL" said l. ''you can 90.
If | want any more LII ring"
When they got out into the hall one
said to the other:
"Fore God, 10, fshe eats all them
oysters she's dead woman"
I did not feel hungry any longer. I
drank my coffee and looked at the oys.
tiers. every one of them as big as nv
hand, and they all seemed looking at
me with their horrible white faces, and
out of their one diabolical eye, until l
could not have eaten one of them any
more than could have carved up a
live baby. They leered at me and seem.
ed to dare me to attack them. Our
California oysters are small, and with
no more individual character about
them tina. grains Of rice, but these de.
testable creatures were instinct with
evil intentions, and dared not swal.
low one fear of the disturbance he
might raise in my interior, so l set about
getting nd of them, for 1 was never
gong to give up beaten before those
walters. hung dress over the key.
hole after locked the door, and lust
outside my window found a tin water.
spout that had hole in it.
l carefully enlarged it, and then slid
.very one Of those breas:ly creatures
1own one by one-one hundred and
wo of them-they all the time eyeing
ne with that cold, pasty look Of malig.
lity. When the last one was out Of
light l stopped trembling, and finished
ny dinner in peace, and then rang out
Or the waters. One OF the walters
sked If l would have some more. May
{ never know the internal pang he in.
icted upon me, but I replied, calmly:
mot now. think too many at once
hight be hurtful
Fourteen hundred circulation isni
I'd for two year and halt old psper,
it? Ii