THE MINISTER AND HIS BREECHES.

Temuka Leader, Issue 1995, 16 January 1890, Page 4

THE MINISTER AND HIS BREECHES.

The Eev. David Macrae, in his lecture under the auspices of Brightonstreet E.U. Church Literary Society, Edinburgh, the other night, told a most entertaining story, which kept the audience convulsed with laughter. It had as its hero a Free Church minister, whose recent adventure in Norway was narrated. The clergyman while touring in Norway, on one occasion unconsciously sat down on an anthill while waiting at a railway station. On entering his carriage he thought himself alone, but soon found he had brought companions with him on his inexpressibles. In despair of getting rid of them he at length took off his nether garment and shook it out of the window, when, to his horror, it caught on a telegraph wire. In a moment bis garment was receding in the distance. He had nothing suitable in his knapsack—not even an Aberdeen plaid—so when the train stopped at the first station he gathered himself together’, dashed out of the train, and, to the astonishment of the bystanders, rushed into the waitingroom, where his knocking speedily brought the stationmaster on the scene. Unfortunately he knew no English, while the Minister knew no Norwegian, so the latter had to open the door a little to let the stationmaster learn his condition, Realising that something nad gone wrong, and that English was wanted, the station- 1 master sent for the only person in the village who could speak English, and

who turned out to be a lady. She was at length made aware of what had occurred, and the unhappy Free Church minister was kept quiet and secluded until his inexpressibles were found, and he was able to preceed on his journey.