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New Zealand Herald, Volume XIII, Issue 4418, 11 January 1876, Page 2 (Supplement)

Russian Customers.—A Belgian -hotelkeeper is especially "sweet" on Russian customers. "They are large, see you," he states; "they dispute not tho accounts. Once lodged himself at me a Count ——," he relates. " When he arrived I was not. Ireturned homo from my circle; my wife was all frightened. She cry to me, ' Go speak to the Mister Russian ; he beat all the waiters—he is in anger —but what an anger!' I' ask of what it is'the question. One tells me the Count he insist that the waiters take him off his boots.- They are brave Belgians; they will not. He Btrike them and say stern follies. I had courage, I; I feared menotof him. I go to his room and say, * Mr. the Count, lam the proprietor; what will you ?' 'Sir,' he say, ' I will thank-you pull me off the boots !' My first sentiment is de lui allonger une claque—to. give him a smack;; but 1 master myself aud say, •■' Wait onlytwo minutes, Mr. the Count; I have an order to give.' - So I run to my wife,- and tell her give me my dress-coat, my.gloves grey-pearl, ■ my gibus, my pantaloons black. In - two minutes behold me, of- great- tenue. J I go | back to the Count; I say to him, 'Only in.' ' dress of gala can the proprietor of this hotel take you off your boots,' and,- my faith, : I take him them off. in one, two !•• He raise I himself, bow himself, and thank me very politely. By and bye, in three weeks, he ask for his bill. I inscribe on it,-as extra, 'To,taking off Mr. the Count's boots by the proprietor in; a dress coat and grey-pearl gloves, 100 francs.' He frown his eyebrows when he read that,-but he not say one word. He pay that addition integrally.'' Never he ask me more to'serve him as. a' pull-boot. Bnt he "come-regularly-,.' three;- four'-years de suite, ; to my hotel, anthe^always.say tbrhp - 'Mr.- I —,-you are a brave-^you'are all a man holy-blue; V" ~' i: < Ln 3li «»"<:>''-■-■-~-i'-' -.' —J .