ANOTHER BREECHLESS STORY.

Waikato Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 2617, 20 April 1889, Page 2 (Supplement)

ANOTHER BREECHLESS STORY.

A I'ERSOX arrayed iu full Highland costume caused, says the Paris correspondent of the Daily Telegraph, terrible commotion in a railway carriage at tho Per'■nche station near Lyons, on Wednesday. Two ladies, who were in the carriage, shrieked a.s they saw the awful spectacle presented by the entry into their compartment of a man without pantaloons. The Highlander, who wns on his way to Nieo, nevertheless, took his seat with Caledonia coolness, whereupon the ladies screamed the louder. It was in vain that the apparition in the garb of old apoligised and explained the situation in bad French and ■ quallyfutile were the efforts of the station master, who assured the ladies that the ireutlemim with the dirk, tho sporran, and the t.irtau accessories or properties was perfectly harmless. " Von don't run the shmlowof a risk-, mesdaines," insisted tho .-.tation master in his blandest tones. •' The gentleman comes from a country where the men wore petticoats and do not wear trousers." Despite everything however, which was said in order to calm their apprehensions, the over-timid lady travellers had to he placed in a carriage at a safe distance from that iu which tho Caledonian stern and wild had taken up his position.