THE REGENT ACCIDENT.

Bruce Herald, Volume XI, Issue 1013, 28 May 1878, Page 6

THE REGENT ACCIDENT.

{To ih^Mutor^ xa' ( Sib,— lt was. with imnßleo^ ; feelin|(^^ j surprise and satisf action that I read oPth^ jMscideniJtojtfr George Capstick, xepbrted i^i your last issue. I was not aware till I read j your^pap^r,, what waßj the j matter with me, but. immediately it struck me that I was the < "Tall Scotchman " referred to, who had : " swallered " this^ modern Jonah, of Life j Assuranoe celebrity. I remembered having a talk wjl|h, George (the talking being all on one side)V~ and feeling considerably^ bored with his voluminous description of the bene- ■ fits of Lif 3 Assurance, I opened my mouth ■'• somewhat widely to yawn and then I remembared missing my little friend, and feel.ing a choking sensation about the throat and thoracic department. I didn't sleep well that night-^in fact I- had -rather a bad time of it with George wherei he was— but on reading your paper ..early next morning, and knowing what Had happened, 1 considered it would not be. conducive to longevity to retail George any longer ; so T took proceedings in _equity : at once. and had him ejected. Six minutes afterwards you might have seen him button-holing- a portly Town Councillor in the street^and him to go in for^a^£sj^^polip^ v for 3 .^he>enefit.-of his widow and family, so I obnclude George is not much the worse and for that matter neither am I.— l am, Ac., ' ,-■■ ~ ♦> Thb Talu Scotohmah."