Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 September 1895 — Surprised the Waiter. [ARTICLE]

Surprised the Waiter.

A Boston man traveling through the South was obliged to stop over in -* small town where there was but hotel, at which the accommodations were hardly to be called elaborate. When the colored waiter brought his dinner, Mr. C. found that he was to have roast beef, stewed tomatoes, corn, peas, potatoes and coffee, the vegetables served in the usual stone china canoes. Presently ha said to the waiter,“Dick, pass the spoons^’ The waiter rolled his eyes in genuine amazement. “Spoons, sail! What y*u want with the spoons? There’s y»’ spoon in yo’ corn.”