ALTERING THE PROGRAMME.
A young masher walking up and down th fl platform of a railway station iu Scotland-wild, a companion who had come to see him off observed two handsome girls enter ft first-class* carriage. “Look here,” he said to his companion, who did not pay much attention to his dress, “ I’ll get into that same compartment* and I’ll tell you what I want you to do. When the train is about to start, you come up andi touch your bat, and say to me, “ My lord, tho guns and dogs are iu tho van.’” His companion smiled assent, hut said he doubted if ho could do it with the proper air of a uobleman’a servant. The masher took his seat with a lordly air in the same carriage with the young ladies whose interest he wished to excite. Tho moment arrived, and tho train began to move, when his companion came up to the carriagewindow. “ Hey, Jock,” he shouted, tell your raaister to be sure to send thac trousers o’ mine by Saturday ! ’—the young masher having to reconcile himself as best he could to being regarded as a tailor’s apprentice.
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Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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193ALTERING THE PROGRAMME. Western Star, Issue 2218, 1 July 1898, Page 6
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