HAD FORGOTTEN HIMSELF.

Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 201, 23 August 1879, Page 6

HAD FORGOTTEN HIMSELF.

An incident, a somewhat ludicrous one, too, of the tire at the Hagerstown Hotel, has been told us by one who was -there and who literally "barely" escaped with his life. He is a travelling man. Being suddenly awakened that < night by a bright light shining in his face, he discovered that the window frame of his room, on the third floor, was one blaze of fire, and that the apartment was rapidly filling with smoke. He at once left, how, he knows not, bat finally succeeded in reaching the ground by a jump from a second storey window. When safely landed .he stood watching the work ot destruction, and near by him were a group of very thinly clad females, also gazing. While thus standing he noticed a party of firemen hurrying past with a quantity of feminine apparel. He immediately, with that gallantry so in keeping with a travelling man, hailed the men with : " Look here, you fellows, give these ladies some of those clothes " The reply was in an instant : "All right, stranger, we'll do so; but don't you think it would be a good idea to put on a pair of spurs yourself ? " The last remark caused him to investigate himself, when he found that his whole costume was a shirt, a vest, and pair of gaiters, while the rest of his garments hung idly over his arm, Our friend blushed, sought a refuge. and pulled on his pants.