6:34
The meat course gone Willie placed the vegetable dish on the empty plate , seized a spoon in lieu of knife and fork and -- presto ! the side-dish was empty . Whereupon the prune dish was set in the empty side-dish -- four deft motions and there were no prunes -- in the dish . The entire feat had been accomplished in 6:34 1/2 , setting a new world 's record for red-headed farmer boys with one splay foot . In the remaining twenty five and one half seconds Willie walked what seemed to him a mile from his seat to the cashier 's desk and at the last instant bumped into a waitress with a trayful of dishes . Clutched tightly in Willie 's hand was thirty five cents and his check with a like amount written upon it . Amid the crash of crockery which followed the collision Willie slammed check and money upon the cashier 's desk and fled .