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Show A MATTER OF COMPULSION. No 8oup, No Dinner, the Rule Laid Down by Barney. Six years ngo, when tho king visited Dublin, some amusing Incidents were recorded duo to tho grotesquoness of somo hotel waiters apparently Just fresh from rural llfo. Ono hotelkcopcr told such a nowly imported "sorvor" that ho must always al-ways servo every ono with soup at dlnnor and bo qulto cortnln that he hnd It. Thoroupon ensued tho following scene between a visitor and the now wnltor: "Soup, sir?" said Barney. "No soup for mo," said tho visitor. "But you must havo it," Bald Bar ney; "it's tho rules of tho Iioubo." "Hang tho houso!" exclaimed tho visitor, highly cxasperntcd. "When I don't want soup I won't cat It, Oct along with yout" "Woll," said Barney, with solemnity, "all I can say Is Just this It's the rules ot tho houso and eorra a drop elso yo'll get till yo finish tho soup I" London Telegraph. |