WAITER'S JARGON.
A young man from the country, while exploring one of the quiet lanes of London for a dinner, had his ears mysteriously saluted by a shrill voice from an eatinghouse, which uttered in rapid tones the following incomprehensible jargon : ''Biledamancapersors, Rosebeefrosegoos, Bilerabbitbileporkanonionsors, Roseiruttonantaters, Biledamaucabbagevegetables, Walkinsirtakeaseatair ! " It is said that the astonished countryman hastened his pace, in order to find a house where better English was spoken ; and the probability is, had he ventured as far as the suburbs of the town, he would have been as equally bewildered. At a public garden in the suburbs, a waiter observing some of his master's customer's surreptitiously departing before the bill was paid, roared out to another attendant : " Bun, run, Joe, there's a glass of brandy-and-water, two teas a quart o' shrimps and a screw o' birdseye just bolted over the blessed fence { After 'em."
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2027, 17 September 1883, Page 2
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144WAITER'S JARGON. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume X, Issue 2027, 17 September 1883, Page 2
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