A HIGHLANDER IN FRANCE.
A person arrayed in full Highland costume caused (says the the Paris correspondent to the Daily Telegraph) terrible commotion in a railway carriage at the Perrache near Lyons. Two ladies who were in the carnage shrieked as they saw the awful spectacle presented by the entry into their compartment of a man without pantaloons. The Highlander, who was ou his way to Nice, nevertheless took his seat with Caledonian coolness, whereupon the ladies screamed the louder, It was in vain that the apparition in the garb of old Gaul apologised and explained the situation in bad French, and equally futile were the efforts of the stationmaster, who assured the ladies that the gentlemen with the d>k, the sporran, and the tartan accessories or properties was perfectly harmless. "You don't run the shadow of a risk, mesdames." insisted the stationmaster in his blandest tones. "The gentleman comes from a country where men wear petticoats and do not wear trousers," Despite, everything, however, which was said in order to claim their apprehensions, the over-timed lady travellers had to be placed in a carriage at a safe distance from that in which the Caledonian stern and wild had taken up his position.
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Temuka Leader, Issue 2081, 5 August 1890, Page 3
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203A HIGHLANDER IN FRANCE. Temuka Leader, Issue 2081, 5 August 1890, Page 3
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