Norwood (2011)

Norwood

Charles Portis

Authors: Charles Portis

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“It was the best thing he had found to eat in New York and by far the cheapest. The place was packed with damp bums who smelled like rancid towels and he had to wait for a seat. One fell vacant and he darted in and got it. Then he saw that he had forgotten his silverware. He left the dish of beans on top of an Argosy magazine to stake a table claim and went back to the cutlery stand. While he was gone the girl with the dirty dishes wagon picked up his beans and an Oriental gentleman across the t...able got the magazine. A man with a bowl of oatmeal got the seat. Norwood came back and thought at first he had the wrong table, then he recognized the Chinese gent. He grabbed the magazine from the foreigner’s clever hands and turned to the oatmeal man. “You got my seat.” The man’s fast reply was “I don’t see your name on it.” Norwood stood there with his knife and fork and paper napkin.
Just then a big man in a blue suit, not a bum but some sort of manager, appeared in the middle of the room and started clapping his hands.MoreLess Read More Read Less