THE LADY AND THE GROOM.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1722, 10 April 1888, Page 2

THE LADY AND THE GROOM.

The London correspondent of & Home paper says:— " A baronet, whose town house looks upon Hyde Park, recently discovered that his eldest daughter had lost her heart to an under-grobm in his employment. This menial;of the stable used to attend the lady in her daily rides, and Cupid, taking aim from his crupper, lodged a dart in the heart of his mistress. The tenderness existad for several months, and cam© by a curious accident to the knowledge of the young lady's father. The hon. baronet chanced to enter a West End restaurant, where, to his horror, he beheld his daughter and groom seated comfortably at lunehy the vassal being arrayed in great splenj dour, and looking, it is said, a very personable fellow. There was] a scene, of course. The angry parent carried off his indiscreet child maiden of a certain age, they say, however and threatened terrible things to the audacious stable helpw What must have been that baronet'* I rage upon arriving home to find'the groom before him calmly engaged af> his vocation ? The baronet rushed at the man, struck him, and was prp&ptlj knocked down. The baronet's son, who is in the service, happened to be at hand at the moment, and, seeing the fate of his father, dashed to his defence, threw himself on the underling, and was sent to grass in the manner of his parent. Then ensued, it seems, a tuaselj in which the clown from the stable not only held his own against a British baronet and his'Bo% but actually beat the representatives! of title and territory off the field. He then left the premises, and has announced his intention of taking legal proceedings to recover damages for assault, wages due, and other grievances, which are, at all events, substantial enough to bring out the particulars of this delightful passage in the history of one of our first fanulies."