BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS.
" ' £ A watchmaker secured admittance to a PonBpnby " At Home" the other day, by pretending to be a representative of the Obsebveu. It was soon whispered about that " a Chiel's amang ye • takin' notes," and the fellow actually had the consummate impudence to take out his pockefc- • "book and commence making memoranda. The dancers paraded their clothes and jewellery in Ijis '-immediate vicinity, and he was liberally treated. to whiskey and all the good things, but V; the climax of effrontery was reached when he . borrowed the dancing pumps of one of the guests, and had a gay old time with the girls all night, while ,the obliging guest was compelled to sit . >41en]bly in a corner. Whether the boots were returned deponent sayeth not. We have reason «eve, "from information received," as the say, that this sort of game is commonly ed in some of .the out-districts, where the rs of the Obseeveb staff are unknown ; we hear of another case we shall feel it our _ publish names. It is intolerable that ajbnpostors should be permitted to obtrudethemHfielves at such entertainments, and . give them-'' 4 selves airs. "* ; i-, 7 < .' ,
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Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 3
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192BEWARE OF IMPOSTORS. Observer, Volume 6, Issue 149, 21 July 1883, Page 3
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