APPROPRIATE USE FOR TOUGH STEAK.

Daily Telegraph (Napier), Issue 3786, 3 September 1883, Page 4

APPROPRIATE USE FOR TOUGH STEAK.

A waiter in a New York dining-saloon placed a sirloin steak in front of a customer. " That's the toughest piece of meat I ever tackled," exclaimed the latter, as ho put the ice-water pitcher out of the reach of his right elbow, "and General Grant made me eat mule meat off the hind-legs at Vicksburg in'o3." The man seeing that it was useless to try to make an impression on the steak with the knife, sat back in his chair exhausted. After musing a few moments, he called the colored waiter and asked if there was another steak in the place like the one lie had before him. He received an answer in the affirmative.

"Bring it right here, and two brick-bats with it; reckon I'll try a Honolulu sandwich."

"AVhat'sdat, sahf"

1 ' Go along and get me another steak. The waiter obeyed, and the man took a newspaper from his pocket, wrapped the steak up in it, and went to the cashier's desk with a check for sixty cents. "Got to catch a train, eh ?" exclaimed the cashier, " and haven't time to cat here, oh. ' ■-•

"No," replied the man, "notoxactly. You see, I arrived in New York from New Orleans last week, and the baggagesmashers knocked tho hinges from my trunk. lam going to replace them with these steaks, and I'll bet £ .0 that when my trunk gets back to New Orleans there won't bo a fibre of my new patent hinges stretched. I'll get square with those baggage-smashers, even if I do lose a square meal."