THE ACTOR’S REVENGE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VI, Issue 32, 9 August 1890, Page 2

THE ACTOR’S REVENGE.

An actor was once travelling in Switzerland. In the same compartment were a couple of pretty young ladies, who not only stared him out of countenance, but made him the topic of a running fire of whispered conversation — very flattering, no doubt,- to the great comedian, but in the long run this marked attention began to pall upon him, and he set himself to devise some method of creating a diversion. Just before Lausanne the train passed through a tunnel, ami, under cover of the darkness, our actor imprinted a couple of audible kisses on the back of his left hand. When the train emerged into daylight the actor sat quietly and gravely as if nothing had happened, whilst the ladies first looked at each other and then, in whispered accents, began to reproach one another with taking too great liberties with their travelling companion. Each, of course, blamed the other, and the pretty quarrel lasted until the train arrived in Lausanne. Before leaving the carriage the actor, hat in hand, turned to his fellow travellers and said : ‘ Ladies, the extraordinary attention you paid to me during our journey makes me naturally anxious to know which of you it was that gave me such an ardent proof of attachment as we passed through the tunnel.’ He did not wait for a reply, but left his fair admirers to settle the point between themselves.