. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. hat if you want the beef broth thewaiter sticks his thumb into the clear soupand brings it along. I have feasted copiously at grand hotelswhere they charge you corkage on your ownhot-water bottle, and I have dallied frugallywith the forty-cent table dhote with wine,when the victuals were the product of thewell-known Sam Brothers—Flot and Jet—and the wine tasted like the stuff that wasleft over from graining the woodwork for amahogany finish. I now greatly desire to eat some regu-lar food, and if such a thing be humanlypossible I should also prefer to eat it insilence unb
. Cobb's Bill-of-fare. hat if you want the beef broth thewaiter sticks his thumb into the clear soupand brings it along. I have feasted copiously at grand hotelswhere they charge you corkage on your ownhot-water bottle, and I have dallied frugallywith the forty-cent table dhote with wine,when the victuals were the product of thewell-known Sam Brothers—Flot and Jet—and the wine tasted like the stuff that wasleft over from graining the woodwork for amahogany finish. I now greatly desire to eat some regu-lar food, and if such a thing be humanlypossible I should also prefer to eat it insilence unbroken except by the noises I makemyself. I have eaten meals backed up soclose to the orchestra that the leader and Iwere practically wearing the same pair ofsuspenders. I have been howled at by atroupe of Sicilian brigands armed with theirnational weapons—the garlic and the have been tortured by mechanical pianosand automatic melodeons, and I crave in any event I want food. I cannot J*B*$PSis$|. I NOW GREATLY DESIRE TO EATSOME REGULAR FOOD Cobbs Bill-of-Fare 17 spare the time to travel nine hundred milesto get it, and I must, therefore, take a chancehere. So, as above stated, he entered this certainrestaurant and seated himself; and as soonas the Hungarian string band had desistedfrom playing an Italian air orchestrated bya German composer he got the attention ofan omnibus, who was Greek, and the busenlisted the assistance of a side waiter, hebeing French, and the side waiter in timebrought to him the head waiter, regardingwhom I violate no confidence in stating thathe was Swiss. The man I have been quotingthen drew from his pockets a number ofbank notes and piled them up slowly, one byone, alongside his plate. Beholding the de-nominations of these bills the head waiterwith difficulty restrained himself from kiss-ing the hungry man upon the bald spot onhis head. The sight of a large bill inva-riably quickens the better nature of a headwaiter. Now, then,
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