Thithyphuth Or The waiter my uncle

Thithyphuth my uncle's waiter when they got to know one another, my uncle and the waiter I was there And there had nearly been a free fight. That my uncle had a speech defect was very nearly the occasion of this brawl. bees sat on the plates of cakes or circled round the children's lemonade glasses. Let'th thee: two thtrong beerth and for the boy theltther or lemonthoda. Or what elthe have you got? and suddenly I noticed that beneath his shiny brown skin my uncle also grew pale. In fact as the waiter, for safety's sake, repeated the order Yeth this. Two thtrong beerth. One thoda. Thertainly thir. Jutht a thecond - are you crathy? You thee fit to make fun of my lithp? Eh? blue-shaven, jaundiced, with trousers empty at the back and fat pockets at the sides, crooked heels the little waiter and my uncle? broad, brown, booming, bass-throated, loud, laughing, lively rich, regal, serene, certain, sound, satisfied The little waiter, different as a carthorse and a zeppelin but both short-tongued, both with the same failing, both with a moist watery soft "th" but the waiter With both hands he held firmly to the top of the table and neighed Thithyphuth Thtop ! Thtop it I thay! the poor thinner, who wath thuppothed to puth a big rock up a huge mountain had to, had to Till nectht Thunday, thilly rathcal! Wiederthehen! On Thunday