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Knocking the Neighbors
George Ade
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The only remaining Item before Dessert was a tempting Salad of Water
Cress.
The Guest identified it as something that grew in the Crick below the
Spring and was commonly classified as Grass.
"Perhaps you had better order for Yourself," said the Host, as the lowly Water Cress followed the others into the Discard.
The Guest motioned the Waiter to come close and said: "I want a nice
Oyster Stew and some Sparkling Burgundy."
MORAL: A Delicacy is something not raised in the same County.
THE GALLOPING PILGRIMA certain affluent Bachelor happened to be the only Grandson of a rugged Early Settler who wore a Coon-Skip Cap and drank Corn Juice out of a Jug. Away back in the Days when every Poor Man had Bacon in the Smoke House, this Pioneer had been soak. . . Read More
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Community Reviews
Wodehouse's knack for metaphors and a bit of Mencken's public-spiritedness.
It's good collection of 33 stories. I like some stories but some stories I just move on to the next.
You can read the stories at following link.
Knocking the Neighbours
Knocking the Neighbors was published in 1913. It is wonderfully snarky and funny; if you like Ogden Nash and James Thurber you'll like George Ade. Reading this book of funny fables was a little hard as it was written in the slang of the time, and many of the words made no sense to me. I remember whe