Served Him Light.
A Bostonian visiting Washington recently Went to the Capitol, and thinking it would be comfortable in the gallery appropriated to ladies accompanied by genilemen, appeared at the entrance, and was stopped by the doorkeeper. "No gentlemen are admitted here except with ladies."
The old gentleman (for he was a Bostonian of mature age, as well as blue blood) was equal to the emergency. "But my wife is in here."
" Very well: go in. 1' On entrance he discovered, to his dismay, that the only person present was a well-dressed colored woman.
On coming put the doorkeeper civilly inquired;
" Did you find your wife?"
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Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5656, 14 March 1887, Page 1
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106Served Him Light. Thames Star, Volume XIX, Issue 5656, 14 March 1887, Page 1
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