A Famous Comedian.

Te Aroha News, Volume IV, Issue 191, 12 February 1887, Page 5

A Famous Comedian.

Henry Comi'ton, the well-known actor, had a remarUaolo knack of saying things which, were not especially funny in themselves in a way whioh made them appear remarkably so. The uttor absence of any effort to be ♦•droll" produced an effoot altogether superior to the comic remarks of the habitual joker. For instance, it, is told of him that oao day he was walking through Kensington Gardens and he met a friend, a clergyman, who lived near him, and they fell into a conversation. Presently Compton eaid rather abruptly : — " Well, I can't stop talking any longed, as it'a nearly 3 and I dine at ,V " Dear me," exclaimed the clergyman, " do you indeed ?" "Yes, I do," rejoined Compton, severely, " yes, I do. Do you *cc anything objejc* tionable in dining at 3?" " Oh, not at all," replied the olergy,m£tt, a little taken aback at theseritousqee&of tyh companion's tone, „ " la thoro anything about the how wjxich. meets with your disapproval ?u? u again demanded Compton, if possibly ;'moifO gravely than before. "Ho, no; not at all," stammered the other, almost afraid that ho had trodden oa a tender corn. "I consider it is a remarkably good, hour," remarked Compton, almostdefituitJy; •♦don't you?" »« Well, a -I— really » " Think it over, and lot roe know;" ex^ claimed Compton, impressively, as ho grapped tho dergyman'y hand and wrung it violently. ,A moment and theqpmedia* was striding homeward through the treesv while the clergyman stored blankly altex him with a dim notion in his mind that h%> had been chaffed,