NOT THE PROPRIETOR'S FAULT.
"^Marmaduke" of Truth, the late Charles Jeringham, was. a great raconteur. He used to relate with zest how a certain ardent fox-hunter used. to ask his friends down to Leicestershire, and put them up at the local hotel:
"On one occasion Sir Richard - was of the party, aud in the morning his host expressed to him the conventional hope that he had passed a comfortable night and slept well. Sir Richard, however seemed in a far from amiable frame of mind, and replied uncivily: 'No, I am afraid I was very uncomfortable indeed and very cold. The. bed : was exceedingly hard, aud I had scarcely any bed-clothes on me.'
"His host at once 'assured him that he would see this did not happen again, and promptly went off to complain- to' the hotelkeeper. 'AVell, sir,' responded the latter, much injured, 'it is surely not my fault if Sir;-Richard preferred to sleep out in thespassage with on but a white necktie and a ii»ir of laveuder kid gloves!'"-•■.:■ ff
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Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 21
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172NOT THE PROPRIETOR'S FAULT. Evening Post, Volume CXIII, Issue 141, 18 June 1927, Page 21
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