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Show EXCUSE FOR HIS BLUNDERING Ideal Waiter, True to the End, Hat Been Working Under Pretty Heavy Handicap. He was an Immaculate servant. Tc watch him serve a salad was to watch An artist at work. To hear bis sul dued accents was a lesson In the art of voice production. He never slipped, be never Btnilcd, ntd his mutton chop whiskers marked hlni as one ef the old and faithful stock. Hut one even lug, to tbo surprise of bla master, be Showed unaccountable signs of nervousness. nerv-ousness. When the chicken camo on, he confused It with the pheatant. He. served evtrythlng In tbo wrong or der, made blunder after blunder, and put a final touch to his shame by upsetting up-setting the salt over the only superstitious super-stitious member of the party. Then, at last, when the ladles had retired to the drawing room, he touched his master mas-ter on tbo shoulder. "1 beg your pardon, par-don, sir." he said In a respectful undertone, un-dertone, "but could you manage to spare me now? My houso Is un lire." |