Show table milliners manners mr dishop bishop while on liis his thousand mile walk across south america describes n rudo meal which he be shared with a i company com of cart drivers almost savage eau abos in chobe company he wits then traveling wo we encamped near a swamp and supped cupped upon sliced pumpkins boiled with bita of meat and seasoned with salt the meal was served in genuine pamp i fashion one iron spoon and two cows horns split in halves were passed around the group the members ot of which squatted upon their haunches and freely helped themselves from the kettle even in this most uncivilized form of satisfying hunger bunger thero ii I 1 i a peculiar etiquette which the most lowly peon invariably observes each member of the company in turu turn dips hid his spoon or born into the center of the stefand stew and draws it ina in a direct line toward him never allowing it to deviate to the right or the left by observing this rule each person eata eats without interfering with hla his neighbor being ignorant of this custom I 1 dipped my horn lorn into tho the mess at random and fished about for some of the nice bits I 1 my companions comp alons regarded tills this horrid breach 0 of politeness with scowls of impatience they declared with some warmth to the cook that gringos cringos did not know ho hov y to cat eat and as they lived upon does dogs in fa their own distant country they came to the great argentine republic Ile public to get food aej and grow fat on the gauchos gauchas gau chos r apologized ns as well as I 1 could and endeavored deavo dear red ored thereafter to cat according to gaucho etiquette |