AN ARISTOCRAT.
A writer in a Melbourne contemporary tells the following :—A wild scion of an excellent English county family has been for some time roving about Queensland. He has a good quarterly allowance from home, which is transmitted from place to place after him. He found himself the other day in one of the coast towns without funds, and went to the bank. Inquiry showed that there was a sum at his disposal, but the manager required some identification of him as the proper recipient. Here was a fix. He walked round the township in the hope of meeting someone who knew him, but in vain. Just before three o’clock he again entered the bank, and placed his case strongly before the manager, who continued obdurate. “ Then,” said Mr De Vere, “ will this do ? ” as he withdrew from beneath the waistband of his trousers and placed upon the counter a portion of an undergarment marked with his name and crest. The manager considered the identification perfect, and let him have his money.
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South Canterbury Times, Issue 2576, 23 June 1881, Page 2
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173AN ARISTOCRAT. South Canterbury Times, Issue 2576, 23 June 1881, Page 2
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