A JOVIAL MARQUIS.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4708, 8 February 1884, Page 3

A JOVIAL MARQUIS.

' The Marquis of Waterford, when young, was full of hilarity, and liked doJog extraordinary actions. His sense of "of the ludicioua was almost overpowering jllt'he never missed an opportunity of baling a good laugh or lark at - somebody, or with something. * One day a doctor had stopped in Piccadilly to visit a patient, leaving his cabriolet in charge of' a lad. The marquis came along, saw the doctor's " How dye do," «nd an old woman behind it with a barrowfnl of. apples. The latter he, asked the price of, to which the owner, thinking he was only, joking, replied •• Get along wid yer imperence. Ye have little to do to think to make fun of a poor lone widder." But his lordship insisted on her naming a pricV—which she did, mentioning £5, a sum that would have purchased at least - half-a-dozen barrows, like hers and their contents, when—to her surprise, Bhe had the money pnt into her hand. His lordship then gave the lad half-a-crown, and, getting a piece of cord, fastended the barrow securely to the back of the vehicle, and calmly awaited events. Presently the doctor came out, rewarded the boy, got ia, "Rave his horse a flip cf the whip, and started off down Piccadilly. It was in the days when Macadam was young, and the road was lens level tu'an it is no-.*, so a. every bound oveYtbe highway out flew a score or two of tipples. .' ' Boys hurrahed, scrambled, and fought for the pippins that strewed the ground; and a mob followed behind yelling out, "Keep the ball rolling, old man!" while the doctor—in blissful ignorance of the-commotion his progress caused— drove on steadily. He certainly looked back, but the barrow was tied too closely to hU own shandry for him to see it," and it wis not - until the. apple-cart cast a wheel that he ascertained what all the row had/been about.