Show better than medicine ills his temples were beginning to be gray and he warold was old enough to have hava a fully developed case of dyspepsia he looked at the slice dice of roast beef and then tried to eat it after which he signaled to the waiter here take this back he said 1 I cant eat meat roasted until its like a piece of leather I 1 told you I 1 wanted it rare do you call this rare young roan man replied the waiter it if I 1 give it to you any rarer than that it would have to be raw look here you can squeeze the blood out of it after finishing a good hearty meal the man with the dyspepsia handed the waiter tt quarter as aa a tip and went out saying to himself 1 I wonder if he be called me young man just from force of habit oi or because he really meant it |