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Project Gutenberg's Eating in Two or Three Languages, by Irvin S. Cobb This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org Title: Eating in Two or Three Languages Author: Irvin S. Cobb Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18526] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK EATING IN TWO OR THREE LANGUAGES *** Produced by Audrey Longhurst, Janet Blenkinship, Sankar Viswanathan, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team of Distributed Proofreaders Europe at http://dp.rastko.net [Illustration: NO RED MEATS, BUT ONLY SEA FOODS] _Eating_ _in Two or Three_ _Languages_ _By_ _Irvin S. Cobb_ _Author of_ _"Paths of Glory," "Those Times and These," etc._ _New York_ _George H. Doran Company_ COPYRIGHT, 1919, BY GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY COPYRIGHT, 1918, BY THE CURTIS PUBLISHING COMPANY * * * * * TO B.B. McALPIN, ESQUIRE, WHO KNOWS A LOT ABOUT EATING * * * * * ILLUSTRATIONS No Red Meats, but Only Sea Foods. _Frontispiece_ "Herb, Stand Back! Stand Well Back to Avoid Being Splashed!" Half a Dozen Times a Night or Oftener He Travelled under Escort through the Room _Eating in Two or Three Languages_ On my way home from overseas I spent many happy hours mapping out a campaign. To myself I said: "The day I land is going to be a great day for some of the waiters and a hard day on some of the cooks. Persons who happen to be near by when I am wrestling with my first ear of green corn will think I am playing on a mouth organ. My behaviour in regard to hothouse asparagus will be reminiscent of the best work of the late Bosco. In the matter of cantaloupes I rather fancy I shall consume the first two on the half shell, or _au naturel_, as we veteran correspondents say; but the third one will contain about as much vanilla ice cream as you could put in a derby hat. [Illustration: "HE
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