Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 January 1911 — No Slang for Her. [ARTICLE]

No Slang for Her.

“Slip me a brace of cackles!” ordered the chesty-looking man with a bored air, as he perched on the first stool in the lunchroom. “A what?" asked the waitress, as she placed a glass of water before /him. “Adam and Eve flat on their backs! A pair of sunnysiders!” said the young man in an exasperated tone. “You got me, kid,” returned the waitress. “Watcha want?” “Eggs up,” said the young man. “‘E-g-g-s,’ the kind that come before the hen or after, I never knew which.’’ “Why didn’t you say so in the first place?” asked, the waitress. “You’d a had ’em by this time.” “Well, of all things- ” said the young man. “I knew what he was drivin’ at all the time,” began the as the young man departed. “But he’s one of* them fellers that thinks they can get by with anything. He don’t know that they’re using plain English now in restaurants.”