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A Bowery Waiter's Amendment

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1896
Copyright
Public Domain
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A slim young man with a high standing collar and straw colored mackintosh burried into a Bowery restaurant the ot-ber evening. As the waiter with furled shirt sleeves threw bis towel down on the table and gave it a wipe the slim young man jnmped. "What'llyerhave?" asked the waiter. "A piece of apple pie and a cup of coffee, and hurry up, " said the young maai flrmly. "Say, look a here, young feller," eaid the waiter, shaking his finger at the guest, "I'll git yer de pie and I'll git yer de coffee, but I'll be hanged if I'll hurry up. " And the big fellow slouched off toward the kitchen , leaving the young man transfixed. "One in de dark and Eve's gift to Adam on a limited freight fer a Cholly," was the order he yelled into the kitchen. -

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Subjects
Ann Arbor Argus
Old News