The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . DR. JOHNSON S AN INCIDENT AT THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE. An interesting episode in the family histor). of the House By F. Fox. (Williams Room in the distance.) On the Cheese 29 sociable, Englishmen, everybody seeming to knoweverybody else in the place. Everything seemedhappy, even to the cat purring on the hearth, and thebrass kettle singing on the hob. Perhaps I shouldexcept the restless waiter, who, when anyone camein, rushed to the bottom of the stairs and gave hisun
The book of the Cheese, being traits and stories of "Ye olde Cheshire Cheese", Wine office court, Fleet street, London . DR. JOHNSON S AN INCIDENT AT THE OLD CHESHIRE CHEESE. An interesting episode in the family histor). of the House By F. Fox. (Williams Room in the distance.) On the Cheese 29 sociable, Englishmen, everybody seeming to knoweverybody else in the place. Everything seemedhappy, even to the cat purring on the hearth, and thebrass kettle singing on the hob. Perhaps I shouldexcept the restless waiter, who, when anyone camein, rushed to the bottom of the stairs and gave hisunearthly yell. Soon down the same stairs came thetranslation of the yell in the shape of the steak Ihad ordered, and with it the potatoes in their jackets,all on old blue willow-ware plates. Your steak, sir. Yes, sir. Anything else, sir ?Napkin, sir ? Oh, serviette! Yes, sir. All Americanslike them, sir. And so I found for the first time that napkinsand bread, freely bestowed in decent restaurants athome, are in England looked upon as costly luxuries.* ..... I have returned again and again to theCheshire Cheese, and have, moreover, tried
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