A Frenchman's Oysters

They used to teil of a Frenchman who, within an hour after landing in America, was Beated in a very well-known down town oyster saloon, with a dozen huge oysters before him. By dissecting thein with bis knif'e and fork he uianaged to swallow two or threc of the smaller ones, when a Yankee canie in, seated himself at the opposite table and attacked a píate of oysters in true American fashion. Ihe Frenchman looked on in amazemont as they disappeared, and leaning forward he asked : " You zchwallow zein whole r "Certainly," said the Yankee. "You zchwallow zis one whole? he asked, pointing to a mammoth specimen on bis píate. " Certainly," said the Yankee, pass ït overhere." , The plate went across the table and down went the oyster with a gulp. " Mon Dieu!" exclaiuied the Frenchman, "I never did sec. I try to zchwallow zat samo oyster one, two, three, four times, and zphat him back every time." The Yank swallowed no inore oysters from Frcnchmans plate that meal.