AMUSING MISTAKES

Thames Star, Volume XII, Issue 3847, 29 April 1881, Page 1

AMUSING MISTAKES

[ghambebs journal] An embarrassing incident we are told, once happened to an -Englishman in Borne. Entering one of the churches in that city, as a service was going on, he , sat quietly down, placing his hat on the ground beside him. Some little time passed, and as there seemed no immediate prospect of the ceremony concluding, be - reached for his bat, in order to. leave, but was stpped by an unseen "hand, which grasped him from behind. Thinking some custodian of the church w»shed him to remain till the end of the servicehe" again waited.: but his patience becoming exhausted/he again reached for his hat, and again he was prevented from goiug in % the same manner. Convinced that-the " service was some really important ODe, the Englishman once more delayed his departure; but at the expiration of a cjuarter of an hour he determined to go in spite of etiquette, so he repeated the same manoeuvre in the direction of headcovering. A: third time the same hand detained him; bat as he determinedly resisted its grasp, a voice behind him exclaimed in English :" I beg your pardon, but that is my hat you are taking." Such was the fact; he had been detained all this while because each time he bad renched in mistake for the hat of another stranger placed in close proximity to his owri.'; ,-■-.■ ■'." j. • :'■ ■ ;■ '■■•■■ ..;■■ .-■.■ •

A mistake of aa embarrassing nature made by a gentleman in London illustrates the necessity ( of keeping a careful record of one's engagements. On the occurrence of a • grand day " at tlie Middle Temple the Masters of the Bench were un°asy at the non-appearance of one of the guesta, a learned exjuige: All hud arrived but him, and the rep»3t was ready to be served. His appearance was awaited with impatience; and after the lapse of half an .our, .the limits of endurance were reach d, and the dinner was served The.missiug gU e>,t failed to appear. Buinext day it was , ascertained that the earned-gentleman >d walked into the liall.of the; Inner Temple, aud bad dined with thebenohers.of that learned society who had not invited Uim,,and. therefore had not made any preparation- to receive him. It did not,happed to. be « grand vJ ."S Ue ' } "ncr Tem»>le' and «» unexpected Raeat never discovered his tni s . Lw, I • ?i c b»PP?ned t9 innocently oWe to the Treasurer: "I inought l gentleman m wnion bad originally been i Jjgantrw B orne assure (6^L?m&