THE "COUNTRY GENTLEMAN?"

Kumara Times, Issue 589, 16 August 1878, Page 3

THE "COUNTRY GENTLEMAN?"

';AI gentlenian lately returned to Hamilton from Melbourne vouches to the Spectator'for the following snlart piece of business t—A respectable looking man,* frphi the northern part of Victoria, on a; Visit to Melbourne, com Btderihg that he could play billiards " a little bit," went into a room in Bonrke--Bfcee|l.With .only a few. shillings in his pocket, but, he soon found there were playersfin Melbourne than hirnBeTfV/.;The*ifew l shilling soon changed hands the last round came Kb was/w'Khput-the wherewithal to pay fQr.'nbbbfers on. the game. . .He tried the hartnan toilet him off till next day, but .dp j .something, tangible must be left to be redeemed. A happy thought struck KiniV Wearing a:.;very overcoat, he thought he COUjld leayw; his unmentionables. This was accordingly done. On returning to th§.hotelv(not a hundred miles from -the post office) he desired the boots to call hirai* for the early train next was done; but while the. boots was proceeding away from the bedroom r door, the bell was Violently a; ning, and on returning, was asked? if any other person had . been,Bleeping in the same room, as the gentleman's trousers and money had beej^j.^aken—-He did not,-care, so much ajwut the trousers as the money. Th&Jjndl.pjsd was Called, - >: who was,very of^thefkind should hap* -pen in his hbuse ; , ?so to keepthtfmatttfr trousers '■wfere pro-' £ tfie*!fare, up' countryV Ms paid, Jei£ thetarman of vth,e billiard*' fooja jpajd, a visit to the barman of the hoteli oppofJite, and told of the gentle* tnaw wWlefthis trdusert in jjawn: The disgusf* exhibited' by the' hoteflteeper mtt^|pereMily^imagined,