Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 253, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1913 — Dining Early. [ARTICLE]

Dining Early.

Lord Shaw told a good story at • dinner to the Bench and Bar, given recently by the Fishmongers’ company. He said that in the old days the Scottish bench in Edinburgh were accustomed to dine at four o’clock In the afternoon, and sometimes these convivial gatherings were prolonged to a late —or early—hour, as the case might be. At two o’clock one afternoon a client called at the bouse of a distinguished lawyer and asked to see the master. "He’s at dinner," replied the maid. "At dinner!” gasped tbe caller. “Dinner at two o’clock in the afternoon I Surely your master dines earlyT” “No,” replied the maid. “It’s yester day’s dinner he's still satin'l“