FED BY WEIGHT.
The other day I asked a singularly ministerial-looking friend where I could find a good place for lunch. He looked at me with grave solicitude, and answered : 1 I will show you a restaurant where they weigh their customers when they go iu and when they come out, and thou charge them so much an ounce for what they have eaten.’ Not a muscle of his intelligent face changed as he checked an exclamation of incredulity by adding : ‘ I went there one day myself with a couple of bricks iu my pockets, which I quietly slipped under the tables, and when I tipped scales on coming out they had actually to pay me 75 cents : and’— with a deprecatory gesture —‘l had fairly gorged myself with all the most toothsome delicacies of the season,’
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Patea Mail, Volume III, Issue 302, 9 March 1878, Page 4
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