A TAIL (Tale).

Dunstan Times, Issue 1160, 23 May 1884, Page 3

A TAIL (Tale).

The write, says the foiiOAiug story was told him by a commercial' traveller, he thereto,e wnl not stake his reputation upon its accuracy, bun as ii has all the elements of pi obablility he thinks it too good to he lose sight of. —A gentleman residing in the district reache 1..,.; one day and took up his quarters at a certain hotel. He ha t. been to Dunedin for a few clays, and" just befoie leaving ban invested in a handsome silk neckerchief for his wife. It happened that there was a larger company than usual at dinner at the hotel that day, including several ladies of mu friends acquaintance and he took occasion to boast of having purchased tor Ins wife a new article of apparel which he thought would be the first of its kind in the district. Of course the ladies were all anxiety to see it, and, with a desire to oblige tbe company and display his taste at the same time, he beckoned *he housemaid, aud told her to mourn the straps of the portmanteau he had left in. the hall, and bring him the small paper parcel which was just inside. The parcel was bioughi, an i as he untied the siring he proceeded to remark, — “ You know, I think a woman ought always to lie well dressed, even if she has no one but her husband to admire her; i his is a sqrt ot thing that’g mot of eu worn, up here, but mice thev’re started all the young ladies will go in for them, - I’m sure. They’re just the style that’ll take a man’s fancy quicker that anything.’’ Having by this time undone the knot, he stood up the better to display his prize, and with a grand flourish eld up to the astonishe I gaze of the company a pair of lady’s unmentionables 1

Screams of laughter from the gentlemen, and crimson blushes from the ladles, greeted the exhibition ; and (he victim of the mistake, turning very red, left the table to investigate. It turned out that he had mounted the wrong 'bus at the rai way, and had inadvertently taken possession of a lady passenger’s luggage, his own - having been deposited in another vehie’e.