INTERFERING ENGLISHMAN.

King Country Chronicle, Volume V, Issue 374, 1 July 1911, Page 2

INTERFERING ENGLISHMAN.

A well-known London barister in Paris , was passing down a back street when he saw a gentleman drive up in a smart brougham and hurriedly enter a restaurant. In<ths gutter behind ' the carriage there was standing a hot-chestnut man with his apparatus, and while his back was turned a young gamin made haste to conned the brougham and the chestnut stove with a piece of cord. . A moment later the gentleman emerged from the restaurant, the brougham, started, and with a crash the stove turned over, distributing chestnuts and glowing embers over the street. Then there was a terrible to-do. The :hestnut man wept and wrung his hands and a crowd quickly collected and began to collect and appropriate chestnuts. The barrister filled with righteous indignation seized the author of the outrage, and gave him a severe cuffing, explaining the situation meanwhile in his best French. But he soon discovered that the sympathies of the crowd were not with him. Cries of "fool," '"pig of an Englishman" filled the air, and at ast someone pointing to a weirdooking machine on the opposite foot- < oath hissed out the word "Cinematograph !" Alas.! with the best intentions in the world the barrister bad interrupted the production of a :omic "film." He still gets hot aDout the ears when his friends oiler to take him to see the moving pic:ures at the music halls.