A BISHOP'S AMUSING ADVENTURE IN FRANCE.

Colonist, Volume XXXVII, Issue 7812, 13 December 1893, Page 4

A BISHOP'S AMUSING ADVENTURE IN FRANCE.

Mrs Rabdsley, wife of the Bi&hop (f Carlisle, told an nnnßual story of her hafctand to a. Carlisle; audience. #Jae. twas iUastrfttiog the impprtanciof> watoblolcefe. The Biehop, she

Baid, wae travelling on the Continent — Without bis wife. (Laughter.) He had had a long day's walk, and had fallen asleep in a train. When he awoke up he found he was at Lyons, in France, far beyond the station be ought to. hnv? alighted at. It was about two o'clock in the morning, and he got out of thy tram, and was surrounded by Fr^ncf} potters, Who asked in French, " "Who, are you ?" The Bishop did not talk a great deal of French, just enough to get along with, and the men being more particular. abont travellers than wasthe oaseinJSngland, the end of it was he was locked up in a waitingroom. (Laughter.) He msde himself very bappy there, as he did under most circumstances, and he f-rll asleep again i About cix o'olock in th-* morning the porters came to him again to I have another, look at the strange visitor. They asked him who he was. •^Anglais," eaid. the Biehop, but they looked him up again. (Laughter.) By-and-by a station-master was brought who was an flnglislimau. He learned the Bishop's came, and said he bad met with it before. He saw it once posted up at Southpo:t that the Rev. Mr Bardeley would deliver a lecture on Palestine. " Oh ," said ..the Bishop, "that is myself-" and explanations followed which led to his being allowed Io go free.