Waiters, and silver trays, and things carried in and out in courses." "My land! Well, I s'pose he had enough schoolin' to get him through it all right!" My mother's face grew red.

She never left any one in doubt as to what she meant.

Father said that "was the Dutch of it." And mother always answered that if any one living could put things plainer than the English, she would like to hear them do it.
"He certainly had," said mother, "or they wouldn't have invited him to come again.

And all mine, Mrs.Freshett, knew how to sit properly at the table, and manage a knife, fork and napkin, before they ever took a meal away from home." "No 'fence," laughed Mrs.Freshett.

"I meant that maybe his years of college schoolin' had give him ways more like theirs than most of us have.