A COMEDY OF ERRORS.

Evening Star, Issue 3504, 16 May 1874, Page 3

A COMEDY OF ERRORS.

The * Toronto Mail ■ gives an account of a ludicrous affair arising out of the resemblance of 1 two young gentlemen, residents, of that city. One ef them, it . seems, was recently married, the other is still a bachelor. Lately, according to the correspondent of the 1 Mail/ the married person went to a dinner party. The unmarried one, as it so happened/ was similarly occupied on the same evening, but, unluckily for his reputa- ‘ tion, he made a miscalculation as to his . .capacity for native wine, and spoiled his - night s amusement. While a glimmer of reason remained he endeavored to get home without attracting attention. By /he tipae, thp popr' young man reached a cab-stand bis mind, had become so

oonfused that lie was unable to remember either his own name or the. name of the street in which he lived; A.s he was engaged in gesticulating somewhat wildly to the cab-drivers, a friend of the married young gentleman, happening to pass, noticed his plight, and, confounding his identity with the latter, pushed him into the eab, whispered to the driver, and continued on his way.' The result 6f this friendly act was the conveyance of the unmarried man to the house of the married man, where his lamentable condition, as may easily be.supposed, created anything but a pleasant surprise. The young wife was deeply mortified at the figure he cut in-’her!father’s house. Subsequently, as he lay asleep upon a sofa, the father-in-law entered the room to remonstrate with him. After wasting much'‘good advice, the' father-in-law suddenly discovered, the mistake that had been made by his daughter, and was in the act of trying to persuade the latter, probably much against her will, that-the Intoxicated young man was not her husband, when -the real husband put an end to the dispute, and greatly increased'the embarrassment of the household, by letting himself in at the hall door with a latch-key.