He Got Quail.
At a London dinner party the restaurant waiter was beinsr discussed, and a traveller proseint said : "You should soe the woolly waiter of the West, the waiter of Dead Gulch, of Busted Boom, of Snake, and of a hundred other American mininsr town".. Ths woolly waiter servss you in his shut sleeves, with a cigar in his. mouth. One day an Englishman ordered quail of such a person. " "Quail?' said the waiter. 'All right, friend, quail it is. Quail gee I ?.' '"And he disappeared in the kitchen, and in a, moment leturned with a dish of pig's feet. «
" 'WTrat's this?' said the Englishman. 'I ordered nuail.'
" 'Wall,' said the waiter^ 'ye've goi quail.' '• 'Bub quail's a bird,' the Englishman exdan.ied.
"TLhp barrel of the waiter* revolver glo:infd a? he said in a lev.", ten-5-e \cicc_: '"Hot here 119I 1 9 * "
He Got Quail.
Otago Witness, Issue 2674, 14 June 1905, Page 79
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