| Show UUIN HIS SHARE He Was Only Olio Stan But Ho Did HJa Little All One day last week a long lean solemn looking man went into a Dearborn street eating house and took a seat at one of the tables Have you any pork soup heasked the waiter Pork soup I echoed the white aproned young man No sir I never heard of pork soup We have some excellent consomme con-somme some very fine vegetable soup and some first class bouillon No broth a la young pig Nothing of the kind Bring mesome pork and beans mostly pork lAll right sir Got any butterine 11 think we have Bring me some bread and butterine Yes sir Got any ham and eggs Yes sir Bring me some ham and eggs Dont care much for the eggs Bring plenty of ham Anything else Yes I want a good sized chunk of roast pork No gravy All pork Understand Under-stand standYes Yes sir That will do for a while The comestibles were brought and disposed dis-posed of in short order Anything else inquired the waiter Yes Got any pork sausages Yes sir Bring me some pork sausages The sausages were brought and devoured without loss of time Got any fried pie No sir This isnt exactly a fried pie kind of eating You can fry a pie to order cant you I Yes sir Well fry half an apple pie Plenty of lard Understand Yes sir Anything else Got any doughnuts Yes Bring me a plate of doughnuts Hot and greasy Understand In duo time the fried pie and the hot doughnuts made their appearance Tho waiter stood by until the last fragment of greasy pastry had vanished and then ventured vent-ured to ask I that all sir No Bring me another plate of doughnuts dough-nuts nutsMy My friend said an elderly gentleman who for some time had been watching the hungry individual from the opposite side of the table with undisguised astonishment astonish-ment pardon me for asking the question I I am a physician Have you an abnormal appetite for pork or are you eating this kind of a meal on a wager Neither answered the lean solemn I looking man breaking another doughnut I 1 own a few shares of stock in a packing and provision company Its down a few points in the market today and I am doing all that one man can do to boom the stock sirthat is allChicago Tribune |
