The Humors of Tenants' Dinners.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXIV, Issue 7499, 24 April 1899, Page 4

The Humors of Tenants' Dinners.

Your anecdote about Lord Ro»ebery (writes a correspondent of " M.A.P.") remind.* me of another story of a guest at a Scottish tennants' dinner t isting ice-pudding for the first time. Taking a large spoonful of the frozen mixture, he jumped up from his chair as if he had been shot, and clapping his hand to his cheek exclaimed in stentorian and agonised tones : "Ow ! ow! ma rotten tooth I"

I remember a good old farmsr at a tenan's' dinner in my youth, who was seated in thi place of honor next to my mother, aid was offer a savory omelette. The disappointment of the honest man, whose idea of an omelette was a compound chiefly of sugar and jam. found vent in the words addressed to his hostess: "Wee', mv lady, I canna complimrat you on your puddin'a." The late liuke of Bncclench used to tell a story about a tenant of his, who being askc&jby the Duchess at a farmers' dinner if htf would not " take some rhnbarb" (stewed with cream), answered naively, in a tone of polite surprise, " I'm mnckle obliged to yoar Grace, bat I dinna need it." Everyone knows the tale of the Yorkshire fanner, who, on taating curacoa for the first time, pot down his liqueur-glass with an air of intense appreciation, and called to a powdered footman behind bis chair, " I say, young maan, 111 tak' soom a* that in a mag."