Show dumas found innkeeper to be an appeaser alexander dumas while travel 1 ing through england stopped one night at a country inn for supper unfamiliar with the language he tried to explain to the innkeeper in hesitant english that he wanted some mus mushrooms brooms served with his meat despite the dramatists attempt the latter did not understand finally in desperation dumas drew a picture of a mushroom on W w a slip of paper with that the inn keeper smiled nodded his head i understandingly and withdrew several minutes later he re turned and offered dumas a good sized umbrella |