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Show I THE OBLIGING WAITER H nerved the Belated Guest as Re quested and Then Wondered. Hp whs h niratigrr in town The clerk of the luilrl hud iicglpiled to call him until 20 uiiuutci after the it-quested hour, and, hk n n,r-queui-p. he had hut n short time for In e.ik fast Iwforc lit' must Uvup for his train. fining into the dining room he w.mpd the fonitnlity of huung Ins chair leisurely piinhed under him by the head waiter, and, nccoslin one of Hie dimky servers, he commanded, command-ed, hurriedly: "(in to the kitchen and get p n lu-PRkfHst five dishes of nn lung that is rendy and get it quick'" As the order wns nccompnnied by a medium-sized piece of silver thp win faring man hnd reason to expect a fairly good nienl. And ns to speed of delivery he wrt not disappointed. In nn incredibly in-credibly short timo the negro reap-pea reap-pea red, bearing aloft n trav on "b.i'h sat five dishes remarkable onlv for theii similarity of sire and slime. When tho tray was lowered Hiiheieiitly to bring the contents of the. dishes into focus, the trader snw his brcakf nst -the dishes of steaming oitmoal, nccompnnied In live ininntiire pitchers of cream. The negro beamed with sirtiifne lift nt the rapidity with which br lind executed the order. The traveler trav-eler hurriedly nto one dish of the oiitmoal, and ns ho left the dining room tho waiter wns. heard to re mark : x "Wonilah wot dnt man snv he want five dishes foah ?" Chicago liocoid-Hernld. |