We Don't Wonder At It

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Title:     We Don't Wonder At It
Author: Falconbridge [More Titles by Falconbridge]

In the city, we get so many new kicks, and put on so many new ways of living and doing up things, that no wonder the quiet and matter-of-fact country folks make awkward mistakes, and get mixed up with our conventionalities, and other doings. Dining at the American, last week, we sat vis-a-vis with an old-fashioned agricultural gent, whose plate of mock turtle remained cooling for some time, while he was busy thinking over a silver four-pronged fork in his hand. At length a broad smile played over his manly features, as the novel-makers say, and he opened--

"Well, I'm jiggered!--ha! ha! they've got to eating soup with split spoons, too!"

[The end]
Falconbridge's short story: We Don't Wonder At It

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