A LUDICROUS INCIDENT.

Wellington Independent, Volume XXVI, Issue 3360, 1 December 1871, Page 3

A LUDICROUS INCIDENT.

A Chicago exchange of recent date contains the following laughable incident : — About half-past twelve o'clock yesterday, as people were returning from church, a lady dressed in ther very height of fashion, with an enormous Grecian bend of magnificent proportions, tripped down Main street in the most approved style, like a cat treading on eggs. Just as she reached the corner of Main and Jefferson streets, where the " gentiles most congregate," a newspaper neatly folded, slipped from under her skirts and fell upon the sidewalk. A polite " mackcrill" saw it fall and called out to her that sheh ad dropped "something," but she kept her eyes fixed on vacancy, and moved straight ahead without hcaringhim. A few steps and another wad fell from the same region, and there was a dimunition in the size of the hump on her back. The boy yelled after her again : •' I say, Missis, you're loosing all your papers." The only sign of hearing that she gave was a quickening in her pace, as if she was anxious to get away from those diggings if possible. A kind-hearted lady, who was walking behind her, and understanding the situation at this moment hurried up alongside and whispered to her that she was loosing her bend. This information caused her to turn into a friendly stairway near by to repair damages : but just, as she put her foot into the door an enormous bundle of papers, a hundred or so in number, dropped from beneath her skirts and rolled onthepavement. The "mackeiill," indignant at the treatment he had received, and the apparent disdain with which his polite attention had been met, on this rushed forward, and seizing the bundle of papers, startled the stillness on the streets with, " 'Ere's jour Extra ; latest from the seat of war !" The lady it is needless to say, didn't stop to take an " Extra."