HIS GREAT DIFFICULTY.

Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2644, 28 January 1908, Page 7

HIS GREAT DIFFICULTY.

The solemn-looking man with the white cravat had been shown upstairs by the dime-hungry bell-hop in a certain hotel. Anon the cadaverous face of the sepulchral guest appeared before the desk-man, and from said face came these words : "Sorry, but I'll have to leave you.' "Why, aren't you the gentleman who just registered and went to his room ?" "The same." "Isn't the room all right ?" "Nothing wrong that I can see. But I read the rules stuck up beside my door, and I found I couldn't comply with them ;so I " "Why. what rules couldn't you comply with ?" "Well, there was one saying, 'Valuables and jewels must be left with the clerk." Now, I haven't any to bave with you, so can't you see—" "Yes ; but " sputtered the dumbfounded clerk. "And then again," went on the solemn man, unruffled, "there is another rule demanding that I leave certain dogs or a dog with the porter. Having' no dogs to leave, and not knowing where they can be had I felt I couldn't qualify as a guest, and so I—' But the clerk had fainted in his tracks. Filling his pockets with stationery, toothpicks, matches, and railway folders, the ex-guest walked out of the door, and was soon lost to sight up the street.