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He saw Joe Nelson using his handkerchief and, on the sly, took up the pepper-shaker and dosed the cloth liberally with pepper. Poor Joe caught the full benefit of the pepper, and in the midst of the meal commenced to sneeze loudly. "Why, Nelson, what is the matter?" asked Mr. Strong, who was at the table that evening. "I don't ker-choo! know!" stammered Joe. "I believe ker-choo! ker-choo!"
"And Miss Redmond don't take any pepper on her aigs; I watched her yesterday." "Well, she may want some to-day, just the same," insisted Mr. Hand in a lordly manner, putting a thin silver boat, filled with salt, and a cheap pink glass pepper-shaker side by side on the tray. Sallie brushed Hand away in disgust. "That doesn't go with the best silver salt-cellar; that's the kitchen pepper.
On the green cloth of the meadows they rise up like lines of table dishes: here are the leaf-mushrooms with their rounded borders, silver, yellow, and red, like little glasses filled with various sorts of wine; the kozlak, like the bulging bottom of an upturned cup; the funnels, like slender champagne glasses; the round, white, broad, flat whities, like china coffee-cups filled with milk; and the round puff-ball, filled with a blackish dust, like a pepper-shaker.
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