The Project Gutenberg EBook of Around The Tea-Table, by T. De Witt Talmage

This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with
almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or
re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included
with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net

Title: Around The Tea-Table

Author: T. De Witt Talmage

Release Date: January 11, 2005 [EBook #14662]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

*** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK AROUND THE TEA-TABLE ***

Produced by David Newman, Melissa Er-Raqabi and the Online Distributed
Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net).

AROUND THE TEA-TABLE.

BY T. DE WITT TALMAGE,

_Author of "Crumbs Swept Up," "Abominations of Modern Society," "Old Wells
Dug Out," Etc._

PUBLISHED BY
THE CHRISTIAN HERALD,
LOUIS KLOPSCH, Proprietor,
BIBLE HOUSE, NEW YORK.

BY LOUIS KLOPSCH.

PREFACE.

At breakfast we have no time to spare, for the duties of the day are
clamoring for attention; at the noon-day dining hour some of the family
are absent; but at six o'clock in the evening we all come to the
tea-table for chit-chat and the recital of adventures. We take our
friends in with us--the more friends, the merrier. You may imagine that
the following chapters are things said or conversations indulged in, or
papers read, or paragraphs, made up from that interview. We now open
the doors very wide and invite all to come in and be seated around the
tea-table.

T. DEW. T.

CONTENTS.

CHAP.
I.--The table-cloth is spread
II.--Mr. Givemfits and Dr. Butterfield
III.--A growler soothed
IV.--Carlo and the freezer
V.--Old games repeated
VI.--The full-blooded cow
VII.--The dregs in Leatherback's tea-cup
VIII.--The hot axle
IX.--Beefsteak for ministers
X.--Autobiography of an old pair of scissors
XI.--A lie, zoologically considered
XII.--A breath of English air
XIII.--The midnight lecture
XIV.--The sexton
XV.--The old cradle
XVI.--The horse's letter
XVII.--Kings of the kennel
XVIII.--The massacre of church music
XIX.--The battle of pew and pulpit
XX.--The devil's grist-mill
XXI.--The conductor's dream
XXII.--Push & Pull
XXIII.--Bostonians
XXIV.--Jonah vs. the whale
XXV.--Something under the sofa
XXVI.--The way to keep fresh
XXVII.--Christma