PRACTICAL GRATITUDE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume IV, Issue 90, 11 March 1884, Page 2

PRACTICAL GRATITUDE.

] Something like a year and a half since a lady was riding m Rotten Row ,a horse which became unmanageable. ■The animal bolted, and was making 'his way for a plate-glass window, when ia gentleman rushed forward, grasped ithe bridle, -and averted what might ! have been a very serious accident. The fair equestrienne was greatly alarmed';-'. She drove : hcirae m a cab, and her rescuer followed with her steed, The lady is wealthy and the mistvess of her fortune. Gratitude to her saviour depened into feelings .of the warmest interest. - But after calling once or twice, the gentleman, who is a Frenchjman, but speaks English fluently, did not come again. The lady saw nothing more of him for some time until one night, on visiting a London . theatre, , she saw him m the orchestra among 'the fiddlers. The revelation was at first disenchanting; but fiddlers are artists, and the lady thought nothing of the fiddle. She made known , her j disqovery to her rescuer iu,a note next day, reproaching him for hisTfalse sentiment, and two months afterwards be- ' came his wife. He is now a " swell, ' and may be seen m Rotton Row taking his ride upon the horso that was the accidental means of securing him a weathy la.dy for his y^ife.

At the funeril of the lad Chus. Braddock, who wna drowned at Nelson, on Tueaduy last, fifty schooltel lows' of the deceased boy followed the remain*. ■ ■■. ■