BISHOP’S PYJAMAS

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume LXXXII, Issue 19443, 31 October 1925, Page 10

BISHOP’S PYJAMAS

RAILWAYS GOT THEM BORROWED RECTOR’S. > LONDON, Oct. 9L Bishop Long, of Bathurst, has bee) intimately acquainted with tho rail ways for 14 years, and he thought h< knew them, he told a gathering of parishioners at Dubbo. But he had never suspected them of excessive zeal. ‘ ‘ When I had taken my seat tn tho train at Bathurst,’’ he said, “I was told that a lady in another compartment wished to see me. When I returned I found my luggage missing. At Perthville, when I asked about it, I was told it was all right—just locked safely away—and to carry on. So I carried on. Some official evidently came to the carriage, and, finding the luggage unattended, said, ‘Well, now, the absent-minded Bishop Long has gone, leaving his luggage behind.’ “The railway officers are so filled with solicitude for those who use their service that they look after both themselves and their luggage. So if I appear in strange garments before you you know why. “If you only could have seen me the night before at the rectoryl They wen making lightning sketches of me ij the rector’s pyjamas. Then I made > sketch of myself with the rector’< razor, of which you have visible evidence in the sundry gashes on my face. In the end, after much trying on, I got garments which enabled me to carry on with dignity, at least within, if not without.’ ’