IN THE WRONG CLOTHES.

Dunstan Times, Issue 958, 27 August 1880, Page 3

IN THE WRONG CLOTHES.

Mark Twain, in his new book called “ A Tramp Abroad,” tells how a party of tourists got wet, and what they did when they came back to the hotel “ We stripped and went to bed and sent down our clothes to be baked ; all the horde of soaked tourists did the same. The chaos of clothing got mixed in the kitchen, and there wore consequences. I did not get the same drawers I sent down, and when our things came up I got a pair on the now plan. They were merely a pair of long, white, ruffled, cuffed s’ceves, hitched together at the top with.a narrow band, and they did not come down to my knees. They were pretty enough, but they made me feel like two people, and disconnected at that. The man must have been an idiot to get himself up like that to rough it in the Swiss mountains. The shirt they brought me was shorter than the drawers, and hadn’t any sleeves to it—at least it hadn’t any more than Mr Darwin would

call rudimentary sleeves ; these had edging around them, but tho bosom wos ridiculous plain. The knit silk undershirt they brought mo was on a now plan, and was really a sensible thing. It opened behind, ami had pockets in it for the shoulder blades, but they did not seem to fit me, so I found it a sort of uncomfortable garment. They gave my bobtail coat to somebody else, and sent me an ulster suitable for a giraffe. 1 have to tio my collar on because there was no button on the foolish shirt 1 described a little while ago”