Round the Santums.
A WRONG FONT OYSTER. Scene in a South Side oyster-house. A certain well-known printer (whom we will designate as Footstiok), slightly intoxicated, is seated at a table perusing a bill of fare. Footstick — I say (hie), waiter ! Waiter (approaching quickly) — Yes, sir.
Footstick — Gimme some oysters ; stewed oysters (hie), and don't be all night about it. Waiter departs. In preparing the stew a few clams got accidentally mixed with the oysters, and without waiting to remove them the waiter (thinking Footstick too drunk to observe the mistake) returns and deposits the dish before him. A few mouthfiila are consumed, when the man of types cautiously begins feeling about the soup with his spoon, and presently brings forth a clam. Footstick (wildly)— Waiter ! Waiter (returning) — Yes, sir. Footstick— What did I order ?
Waiter — Oyster stew, sir.
Footstick — Oyster stew ! That's so. Jea 1 ye look at that (holding up a clam)! My friend, here's a wrong-font oyster, or (hie) the proof lies," — Trojan Observer.
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Otago Witness, Issue 1383, 1 June 1878, Page 19
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166Round the Santums. Otago Witness, Issue 1383, 1 June 1878, Page 19
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