A TOUGH STEAK.
** I never felt myself flooded »ut once in jay life," eaid the drummer, with the air of a mun who thinks he has eomnthin? -worth tbe telling. "It was down in Maine," lie continued, after waiting loner enouyh to set curiosity on an edge. ''I'd been Jiving on railway sandwiches for a week, and I just longed for a square m»nl. Well, ■we had to stop at a way station for n couple of hours, on account of a hot box or something o' that sort, and one of the brakemeo put me on to what he said was a firat-clasE restaurnnt. I looked it up and ordered a Bieak. The steak came, but it -was a disappointment. I sawed awny ou it till my arms ached. It was out of the -question to chew the email bifa I tore eff rfrom it, though I tried hard. I aave it up Anally, and as I paid my score I Bai.i iud•dentaljy, 'Tbat'B about the toughest eatiuy 1 ever experienced.' He took the monej, swept it into the drawer, and without >i quiver be ccolly remarked, 'You don't «oem to consider hmv couch good it'll do you in the way of exercise 1'"
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Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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205A TOUGH STEAK. Taranaki Herald, Volume XL, Issue 9257, 5 December 1891, Page 1 (Supplement)
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