"Are you the proprietor of this hash house?"
"Yes," says he.
"Well, then I want to know if you sent your waiter away, when you saw us coming, so you could charge us for a night's lodging."
Just then the waiter came in.
"Say," says I, "do you know we have been waiting here for an hour and a half?"
"That's nothing," says he, "I've been waiting here for ten years."
He placed a carafe of water on the table.
"Look here," says Percy, "I never drink water unless it's absolutely pure and healthy. Is this all right?"
"Sure," says the waiter.