THE YELLOW DOMING.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume VII, Issue 1925, 26 February 1885, Page 2

THE YELLOW DOMING.

Among the adventures recorded of the Irish Brigade while in France, one of the most amusing was an occurence in the time of the Regent Orleans, in honor of livjlppe birthday a grand piaequerade was syen in Paris, It ip a hjgh olass affair; tickets were so,ld at a double loiiis d'or each. All the rank and beauty of Paris were assembled around the Regenfy and a costly and luxurious supper crowded the attraction of the night. Whilst the entertainment was proceeding, one of the Prince's suite approached and- whißpereji to him; "It is worth your Royal fligHness's wtyle to stop into the supper roomp; there is a yellow domino there who is the. most extraordinary cormorant o% witnessed. He is a prodigy your highness He never stops eating and drinking, and the attendants say, moreover, that he has not done so for hours." His Royal Highness went according, and sure enough there was the yellow domino, laying about him as described, and swallowing everything as ravenously as if had only just begun. Raised pies fell before l!H ljke garden paijingp before a fieldpiece ; pheasants and seemed to fly down his throat in a covey; the wine he drank threatened a scarcity, whatever might be the next vintage. After watching him for some time the Duke acknowledged he was a wonder, aad laughingly left the room; but shortly afterwards on passing through another, he saw the yellow domino again, and as actively at work as ever, devastating the dishes everywhere and emptying tha-champagne bottles as rapidly as they were brought to him. Perfectly amazed, the Duke at last could not restrain his curiosity. '• Who," he asked, is that insatiate ogre that threatens such annihilation to all the labors of our cooks ?" Accordingly one of the suite was despatched to. him. " His Royal Highness the Duke of Orleans desires the yellow domino to unmask." But tho domino begged to be excused, pleading the privilege of masquerade, "There is a higher law," replied the officer,'' the royal order must be obeyed." " Well, then," answered the incognito, "if it must be so it must," and, unmasking, exhibited the ruddy visage of an Irish trooper, • " Why, in the name of Polyphemus .!" exolaimed the Regent, as he advanced to him, "who and what are you? I have seen you eat and drink enough for a dozen men at least, and yet you seem as empty as.ever." "Well, then," said the trooper, "since the saycret must come out, plase your Royal Highness, I am one of Clare's Horse-that is the guard of honor to-riight—and when our men was ordered out we clubbed our money to buy a ticket, and agreed to take our turn at the supper table," (l What!" oxclaimed the Duke, " the whole troop coming to supper ?" "Oh its aisy, plase your Highness. Sure, one domino would do for all of us, if aich tuk it in turn, I'm only tho eighteenth man, and there's fcwelvo more to come." The loud laughter of the jovial Duke was the response to this explanation, followed by a louis d'or to the dragoon, and a promise to keep his " sacret" till the entire troop had supped.