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Title: Eating in Two or Three Languages

Author: Irvin S. Cobb

Release Date: June 7, 2006 [EBook #18526]

Language: English

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[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