The Grenada gazette. (Grenada, Miss.) 1885-18??, 1886-04-24

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anxious and feel so hurried that / must
be off, my good sir, l must indeed"
Jack had made up his mind to seek
the nearest coffee-house as fast as pos
sible and there have the heartiest and
most luxurious breakfast that could
make amends for his disappointment.
Being once more out of doors, our hero
PUSHES likes tiger into Fleet street and
plunges into the first cotfee-house in
sight.
"WaiterI'
"Yessir."
Breakfast Immediately. Tea, black
and green, and all that"
"Yessir, Eggs and toast, sir?"
by all means"
"lessir. just So, and instantly"
"Yessir, Cold fowl, sirg:"
Precisely, and no delay"
"Yes>ir. Pickles, sir:9"
Bring ~all-every thing-no, 1 don't
care for pickles, but bring any thing you
like, and do make haste, my good fell
low. Do hurry up! l never was SO
hungry in my life!'
"Yessir. Directly, sir. Like the pa
per, sirT
Thank you, thank you! Now, for
heavens sake, l beg of you
'Yessir. Immediately, sir; every
thing ready, sir"
Every thing ready" thought Jack.
Beautiful place, a coffee-house! Fine
English ~place-every thing so snug, so
comfortable. Have what you like and
no fuss about it. What a breakfast |
shall eat. And the paper. too; horrid
neutrality-suspicious. sffair-assassina-
ton. Bless me, what horrible things
how very comfortable! Waiter"
"Iessir, Coming, sir. Directly, sir
you've another slice OF toast getting
ready?'
''Yessir. All right, sir"
Let the third be thicker, if you
please, and the fourth
Every thing is served up hot and rich;
eggs, plump; ham, huge; cold fowl,
tempting.
GLORIOUS moment.' inwa rdly eiac
ulated Jack Abbott. He had doubled
the paper conveniently so as to read
the Express from Paris" in perfect
comfort. Before he had poured out
his tea, he was in the act of putting his
hand to n of the inner slices of toast
when-awful INSTRUMENTATION should
he see passing the window but his
friend Goodall. He was coming. of
course, to read the papers, and this of
all the cotfee-houses in the world, was
the one he must needs 20 to! What
was to be done? Jack could not hurt
anybody feelings.
There was nothing left for him but
to bolt. Accordingly, after hiding his
face with his paper until Goodall had
taken up another, he PUSHES out as if a
sheriff was after him.
Jack congratulatfng himself that he
had neither been seen by Goodall nor
tasted the breakfast unpaid for, has
ordered precisely such a breakfast, has
got the same newspaper and seated
himself as nearly as possible in the
very same place.
"Now," thought he, II am beyond
the reach of chance. Goodall can not
read the papers in two cotlee-houscs.
BY Jove was ever man so hungry as |
am9 What a breakfast | shall eat!'
Enter breakfast served as before.
"Glorious moment" thinks Jack
again.
He has got the middle slice of toast
in his fingers, precisely as before, when
happening to look up he sees the wait
erof former cotlee-house pop his head
in. look him full in the face, and as
suddenly withdraw It. Back goes the
toast on the plate, up springs poor
Abbott to the door, rushes forth for
the second time, and makes as fast as
he can for a third coflee-house.
Am | never to breakfast?' thought
he. NAY, breakfast | will. People
can't 60 into three coficc-houscs on
purpose to 60 out again. WHAT break
fast will eat"
Jack Abbott, after some delay, owing
to the fullness of the room, is seated as
before. The waiter has ''yessired' to
their mutual satisfaction, the toast is
done, eggs plump, ham huge, etc, etc.
Unluckily three pair of eyes were OBJ
serving him all the while, to wit; the
walters of the first tavern. the walters
of the second and the landlords of the
third. They were now resolving upon
a course of action. Jack was in the
very agonies of hunger. by Hcrcu-
les, what a breakfast | will, shall, must
and have certainly got to eat! could
not have stood it any longer. Now,
now, now is the glorious moment of mo-
ments." Jack took up a slice of the
toast and--with a strange look of mis-
laid it down again.
'I'm blessed if he's touched it after
ALL said waiter the first. ''Well, this
beats every thing"
Hes a precious rascal, depend
says the landlord. "We'll nab
him. Let us 60 to the door"
'I1I be hanged if he amt going to
BOLT again!'' said the second waiter.