PUT HIM IN THE BILL.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4454, 14 April 1883, Page 4

PUT HIM IN THE BILL.

"Did you notice that the Earl of Stamford was dead ?" said an Englishman to the London representative of the Detroit Free Press. "Yes ; who was lie ;" • " A great sporting nobleman. His title dates from Richard I. He has unlimited faith in the power of money, the supremacy of the aristocracy, and the genrral worthleesness of all the rest of humanity. One day he and a few patrons of the turf were dining at the Star and Garter, at Richmond, where Thackeray says it will cost you ten and sixpence to look at the waiter. It cost the earl somewhat more than that aura. He had some words with the waiter, and thinking the man insolent, he sprang up, and to the horror of all present, sent the unfortunate man, neck and heels, crashing through the window down on the terrace below. The man's cries alarmed the whole neighbourhood, and' the landlord came breathlessly up.the stairs and said : " My lord, you have killed the waiter." " Thash all ri'," hiccoughed the earl. " Jusht put the villain down in the bill." The injured waiter was interviewed. Ho named the sum that would satisfy his wounded feelings, and it was put. down in (ho bill and cheerfully paid by the boozy earl.