Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 5 – Anonymous · Verses Across
Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 5At the Celestial Restaurant
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Literature · Humor
Mr. Punch's After-Dinner Stories 5
At the Celestial Restaurant
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Customer (indignantly). Hi! waiter, what do you call this soup?
Waiter (meekly). I not know, sir, but ze padrone tell me to describe 'im cocks-tail!
"THE COMING MAN."--A waiter.
SO VERY CONSCIENTIOUS!--Master of the House. "Why, Jenkins, what on earth is the matter with you? Aren't you ashamed of yourself?"
Butler (with great deliberation), "Well, shir--if you pleashe, shir--itsh not quite my fault. You told me to taste every bottle of wine before dinner, in cashe one should be corked. I've only carried out in-shtrucshuns."
