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And when I am going to another country, and a dear friend gives me a letter to some one whom he tells me I shall be glad to meet, and from whom I shall gain great instruction, I accept the letter, knowing very well that the man I shall really be glad to meet, and from whom I shall truly gain instruction, will present himself on the top of a diligence, or take a seat at my table at some cheap café or chop-house.

The clerk brought in the draft, which was put into his pocket-book without being signed; his coat was then buttoned up, and Mr John Forster repaired to the chop-house, at which for twenty-five years he had seldom failed to make his appearance at the hour of three or four at the latest.

There is no need to go far afield. There is the older New York, with its memories of Mine Host of oyster-bar and chop-house, of culinary joys and the ghosts of viands. Yesterday the personality of the landlord was more in evidence and that of his staff happily less so. Mine Host was an individual and not yet a corporation. He oozed welcome.

Thus this very inn, which in America would be styled the 'Eagle Tavern, or the 'Oriental or Occidental Hotel, or the 'Anglo-Saxon Democratical Coffee-house, or some other equally noble or dignified appellation, is called the 'Shovel and Tongs. One tavern, which might very appropriately be termed 'The Saloon of Peace, is very vulgarly called 'Dolly's Chop-house."

Having joined our father at his office, he would invariably take us to a chop-house situated at the end of a blind alley which lay concealed somewhere in the neighborhood of Walnut and Third Streets, and where we ate a most wonderful luncheon of English chops and apple pie.

The new temple alluded to shows European influence in its arrangement, having a cloister around a square court in the rear. Two other temples were visited, and a further drive taken. On our return we went to the place of places in Bangkok, thoroughly Chinese in character, a combination of gambling-den, chop-house, and theatre, covering in space about a block.

I knew him long before we opened our room, for I was in the habit of frequently visiting the chop-house in which he served. His hours were incredible. He began at nine o'clock in the morning with sweeping the dining-room, cleaning the tables and the gas globes, and at twelve business commenced with early luncheons.

Suddenly in the High Street, as we passed a chop-house from whose open doors we caught a waft of old-fashioned cookery and other restorative elements, he motioned us to halt. "This is my last five pounds" and he drew a note from his pocket-book. "Do me the favour, Mr. Rawson, to accept it. Go in there and order the best dinner they can give you.

Also, across the way the "k" has dropped out of steak on the window of a chop-house. The public-houses down this way, many of them, are very low places. The thing to do in this world is to get as much innocent pleasure out of the spectacle as possible. Well, the streets here twist about beneath the Bridge, so that you do not know what's beyond the turning.

Then, if he pops in opportunely, I can say, with Shakspeare amended: I am in slops, Stept in so far, that, should I wade no more, Returning were as tedious as go o'er. And, then, husband has no choice but to retreat to a chop-house, and leave me to finish. But the chance for a grand saturnalia is best when Mr. Smith goes from home for a day or two.