AN EMBARRASING SITUATION.

Dunstan Times, Issue 890, 9 May 1879, Page 3

AN EMBARRASING SITUATION.

Under the head of “ An emharrasing situation, ” the Bendigo Advertiser publishes the following : the week a commercial traveller took up his quarters at awell. known hostelry in Sandhurst, and the house being exceedingly crowded, the landlady kindly gave up her bedroom to accomodate him. The uext day the bagman had occasion to go to a town at some distance from Sandhurst, and detamed during the night. The landlady, finding that her guest had not returned at the hour for closing for the night, retired to rest in her own bedroom as usual. On the following day the traveller returned to Sandhurst, and having only half-an-hourto spare wherein to catch the train for Melbourne, he rushed up into his former bedrosm, in blissful ignorance of the fact that that landlady had slept there during the previous night, hurriedly bundled his etceteras, including what he thought was his night shirt, into a carpet bag, and made for the railway station to catch the train. On arrival in Melbourne, and returning to the wife of his bosom, she, as was her usual custom, empti ed the hag of its contents, and the scene which followed when, from the heterogeneous articles it had contained, his wife extracted an article of ladies apparel worn only on certain occasions, may be better imagined than described, It to-'k some time and trouble on the part of tho uuforuuate husband to set matters right. ”