文档介绍：SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE
SOMEBODY'S
LUGGAGE
by Charles Dickens
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SOMEBODY'S LUGGAGE
CHAPTER I--HIS LEAVING IT
TILL CALLED FOR
The writer of these humble lines being a Waiter, and e of a
family of Waiters, and owning at the present time five brothers who are all
Waiters, and likewise an only sister who is a Waitress, would wish to offer
a few words respecting his calling; first having the pleasure of hereby in a
friendly manner offering the Dedication of the same unto JOSEPH, much
respected Head Waiter at the Slamjam Coffee-house, London, ., than
which a individual more eminently deserving of the name of man, or a
more amenable honour to his own head and heart, whether considered in
the light of a Waiter or regarded as a human being, do not exist.
In case confusion should arise in the public mind (which it is open to
confusion on many subjects) respecting what is meant or implied by the
term Waiter, the present humble lines would wish to offer an explanation.
It may not be generally known that the person as goes out to wait is NOT a
Waiter. It may not be generally known that the hand as is called in extra, at
the Freemasons' Tavern, or the London, or the Albion, or otherwise, is
NOT a Waiter. Such hands may be took on for Public Dinners by the
bushel (and you may know them by their breathing with difficulty when in
attendance, and taking away the bottle ere yet it is half out); but such are
NOT Waiters. For you cannot lay down the tailoring, or the shoemaking,
or the brokering, or the green-grocering, or the pictorial- periodicalling, or
the second-hand wardrobe, or the small fancy businesses,--you cannot lay
down those lines of life at your will and pleasure by the half-day or
evening, and take up Waitering. You may suppose you can, but you cannot;
or you may go so far as to say you do, but you do not. Nor yet can you lay
down the gentleman's- service when stimulated by prolonged
patibility on the part of Cooks (and here it may b