HER FIRST CARRIAGE RIDE.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume VIII, Issue 30, 25 July 1891, Page 204

HER FIRST CARRIAGE RIDE.

A lady tells the following anecdote of the simplicity of the peasantry of Oberammergau, where the Passion Play is performed :—

‘ On a lovely June Sunday last summer, as my sister and I were driving down the valley from the play, on our road to Partenkircben, we overtook a party of peasants returning home after having viewed the holy spectacle. One of them was an old woman bent under her weight of years. We stopped cur carriage to in juire whether her way lay with ours, and, finding that it did, insisted upon her getting in with us. When she had seated herself she looked at me and asked :

‘ “ Are you a princess?” * “ No ; I am not a princess,” I answered. ‘ “ But you have a carriage and a pair of horses.” * “ Yes ; but I’nr not a princess.” ‘ “ I am eighty-four years old, and this is the first time that I have ever ridden in a carriage.” ‘ She sat silent for a few moments, then looked at me again inquiringly, and said : ‘ “ Did the dear Lord Christ tell you to take me into your carriage ?” ‘ And I answered, reverently : * “ Yes, I think so.” ’