Show A MATTER OF compulsion no soup no dinner the rule laid down by barney six years ago when the king visited dublin some amusing incidents were recorded due to the grotesqueness ot of some hotel waiters apparently just fresh from rural life one hotelkeeper told such a newly imported server that he must al ways serve every one with soup at dinner and tie be quite certain that he had it thereupon ensued the following scene between a visitor and the new waiter soup sira sir said barney iso no soup for me said the visitor but ou must have it said bar ney its it s the rules of the house hang the house exclaimed the visitor highly exasperated when I 1 d dont on t want soup I 1 won wont t eat it get along with you well said barney with solemnity all I 1 can say Is just this its it s the rules of the house and dorra a drop else yell get till ye finish the soup london telegraph |