Middletown transcript., 1886-03-19

must be off, my good sir, I must i
|ssss. ss.a IN Sllls mind L .ssI
the nearest coffee-house as fast as pos
aitRRhd tha1e have Flse heartiest an
most luxurious breakfast that coul,
make amends for bis disappointment
! Being opss more out Of. doors Jour her
rilshes like d tiger intbl Fleet stree
and plunges into the first coffee-hons'
sllgERs..li..era
"Yessir." -
T." Breakfast Immediately. Tea, blacl
AID green, and all that"
!" Yessir. Eggs and toast, sir ~
rByall means.'i IN A
\ 9rfessa Gst sol aba ihaantl
"Yessir. Cold fowl, sir?"
Is YR1aisety hndp&a aelayxA
Yessir. Pickles, sir?'
Bring all-eyerthiug ]
doAt 94yfor pcsleA Rst- bring any
thing YOU like. and do make haste
nv good fellow. Do hurry up! | nevel
wa q IAAssE mmy1iA" S
Yessir. Directly, sir. Like the
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"Thank you, thank your Now fol
heayen,s, sake, I bsg ofy9u0o""
i ''iYessir. i Imidediatsly, ,sirslevery'
thing ready, SIR. ;. N
Ia E7erythng'ready! though. Jack
Beautiful place, a coffee, house Fine
English place AeyerSt thing 50 snug. SC
comfortable. Have what you like aud
no fuss.about it. What . breakfast !
shall eat! Ahdthe paper foo ihsrrid
naurdsszaysterious afair-assassina,
rfien. Bless me, what horrible things
r-7heg very comfortable! WaiterI"
iaast Yessir. Coming, sir. Directly, .sir." J"
"You'ye another slice of toast get
ting ready r 2tc9 -
"Yessir. All right, SIR
"Let the third be thicker, if you
please, and ali the fourth. - H
Everything is served Up hot and
rich eggs, plump; ham, hinge: cold
fowl, tempting. s.4,.; :, s.s
- y Glorious moment r !, inwardly
calculated Jack Abbott. He had
doubled the paper conveniently SO as
to read the " Express from Paris in
perfect comfort. Before he had pour
ed out his tea, he was in the act of
putting his hand to one of the inner
slices Of toast when-awful visitationi
whom shpsldI bs see passing the
window but his friend Goodall. He
was cdmiagl Sc6urse, to read the pa
pers and this of all the ,cofee-houses
ii The world, was the one he must
,peeds g0 tok What was to be done ?
"
Jack could not hurt anybody's feel
az >" Asu'- tsi9si9i = id tit le'4at ~
lhgss fzssol '.if % -. $50 sis h't. = Z
There was nothing Jeff 4SfshM but
ts-bels.---Aeeesaiaglyy. y.afsss Aiaisg his
face with bis paper until Go0dall bad
taksq rE fHoshef nhe Fushes bpt 9s Il
a shgtif was after him.
{ Jack Gapgratplating himself that he
had neither been seen BY Goodall nor
t tasted ths breakfast & unpaid for. has
ordered Precissfy eff n such a breakfast, has
got the same Newspaper and seated
himself as neafly az possible II in the
very same place. tE ~
" Now" thought he, % T am beyond
the reach IF chance. Gooddil cannot
read the, papers in two cofee-houses.
By Jose was ever man 70 hungry as
! am? What breakfast I shall, eat?"
Enter breakfast served as before.
Glorious moment T. thinks Jack
again. '' 70 1iA} t3lI' s~ VIC
He has got the middle slice Of toast
in his fingers, precisely as before,
when happening to, look up he sees
the waiter Of former cofee-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 third cofee-house.
Am | never to breakfast p thought
he. Nay, breakfast I will. People
can't go into three eofee-houses on
purpose to 60 out again What u
breakfast / will eat p
Jack Abbott, after some delay, ow-
ing to the fullness of the room, is seat
ed as before. The waiter has "yessir-
ed to their mutual satisfaction !; the
t9ast IS done, eggs plump, ham huge.
etc. etc. -
Unluckily, three pairs of eyes were
observing him all the while; to wit,
the walters IF the first tavern, the
walters Of the second, and the land
lords of the third. They were now
resolving upon d course of action.
Jack was in the very agonies of hun