A NAUGHTY STORY.

Dunstan Times, Issue 1199, 20 February 1885, Page 3

A NAUGHTY STORY.

There was a small party given the other evening when a certain “high personage ” was present. After dinner, when all the guests, were assembled in the drawing-room, an old woman, dressed in a French costume with very short skirts, suddenly made her appearance, and one of the company being requested to play some lively opera-bouffe airs on the pianoforte, she proceeded to dance the “ cancan.” She danced with much spirit and vivacity, not altogether, perhaps, as a modest old woman should,and, as usual, the “ high personage ” was in shouts of laughter. At last she sat down amid a round of applause, and then a quadrille was formed, the old woman requesting the “ high personage ” to be her partner Although not the proper thing he con'd not well refuse. After the quadrille she as suddenly disappeared, and people were wondering who she was, when the door was tin own open and in walked Lord . 11 needed' but a glance to see that he it was who had been masquerading as the ancient French damsel, and great was the merriment thereat. On the whole when one reflects, it was not a very elevating sight. Lord is a man of seventy-five, and notwithstanding his age is one of the high personage’s most constant companions. Th re are some persons who accuse him of being a great toady, and if one might judge from the exploit just mentioned the charge is not very untrue. Fancy a man of his age,i and a prominent member of society, consenting to such sin exhibition of want of dignity on his part, merely for the sake of amusing the “ high personage.” The lady at whoso house this sort of ridiculous tomfoolery occurs every year for the delectation of “ Tummy,” is a woman of over sixty years of age, and has always been very fast, and not over goodslookiug