Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 143, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1911 — EXCUSE FOR HIS BLUNDERING [ARTICLE]

EXCUSE FOR HIS BLUNDERING

Meal Walter, True to the End, Had Been Working Under Pretty / Heavy Handicap, He was an immaculate servant. To , watch him serve a salad was to watch an artist at work. To hear his subjdued accents was a lesson in the art 'of voice-production. He never slipped, he never smiled, and hta mutton-chop whiskers marked him as one of the old and faithful stock. But one evening, to the surprise of His master, be showed unaccountable signs of nervousness. When the chicken came on, he confused it with the pheasant. He served everything in the wrong order, made blunder after blunder, and put a final touch to his shame by upsetting the salt over the only superstitious member of the party. Then, at last, when the ladies had retired to the drawing room-he touched his. master on the shoulder. “I beg your parden, sir,” he said in a respectful undertone, “but could you manage to spare me now? My house is on fire.”