We Don't Wonder At It


In the city, we get so many new kicks, and put on so many new ways of

living and doing up things, that no wonder the quiet and matter-of-fact

country folks make awkward mistakes, and get mixed up with our

conventionalities, and other doings. Dining at the American, last week,

we sat vis-a-vis with an old-fashioned agricultural gent, whose plate

of mock turtle remained cooling for some time, while he was busy

thinking over a silver four-pronged fork in his hand. At length a broad

smile played over his manly features, as the novel-makers say, and he

opened--



"Well, I'm jiggered!--ha! ha! they've got to eating soup with split

spoons, too!"



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