Excerpt from Seven Smiles and a Few Fibs<br><br>Alphonse sent the order flying down the tube and then trotted quickly back to No. 13, where were two of his special customers. He was one of the upstairs' waiters at the Boodle Purp Restaurant and was also one of the smoothest varlets that ever smirked. Like half the French waiters in San Francisco, he was an Alsatian, the other half being Swiss and Belgians. His real name was Joseph Steinmann, but, having been called Alphonse by the first jovial gentleman he had waited on, he had kept the more Gallic title ever since.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.