Now where do you suppose the solid part of breakfast is, Squire?
Why, it's on the side-board--I hope I may be shot if it ain't--well, the tea and coffee are on the table, to make it as onconvenient as possible.
"Says I, to the lady of the house, as I got up to help myself, for I was hungry enough to make beef ache I know.

'Aunty,' sais I, 'you'll excuse me, but why don't you put the eatables on the table, or else put the tea on the side-board?
They're like man and wife, they don't ought to be separated, them two.' "She looked at me, oh what a look of pity it was", as much as to say, 'Where have you been all your born days, not to know better nor that ?--but I guess you don't know better in the States--how could you know any thing there ?' But she only said it was the custom here, for she was a very purlite old woman, was Aunty.
"Well sense is sense, let it grow where it will, and I guess we raise about the best kind, which is common sense, and I warn't to be put down with short metre, arter that fashion.

So I tried the old man; sais I, 'Uncle,' sais I, 'if you will divorce the eatables from the drinkables that way, why not let the servants come and tend.

It's monstrous onconvenient and ridikilous to be a jumpin' up for everlastinly that way; you can't sit still one blessed minit.' "'We think it pleasant,' said he, 'sometimes to dispense with their attendance.' "'Exactly,' sais I, 'then dispense with sarvants at dinner, for when the wine is in, the wit is out.' (I said that to compliment him, for the critter had no wit in at no time,) 'and they hear all the talk.

But at breakfast every one is only half awake, (especially when you rise so airly as you do in this country,' sais I, but the old critter couldn't see a joke, even if he felt it, and he didn't know I was a funnin'.) 'Folks are considerably sharp set at breakfast,' sais I, 'and not very talkat_ive_.