WASHINGTON'S LAUGH.

New Zealand Tablet, Volume VI, Issue 273, 26 July 1878, Page 11

WASHINGTON'S LAUGH.

A writer ill Lippincott's Magazine tells the following story, which she heard when a little girl from Mrs. Madison • " One day, in Philadelphia," said Mrs. Dolly Madison, « I was ™ d Pajne 1 T . odd > Ler son, dressed in my calico bedgown. While we were laughing at the figure he cut, the servant threw oVen Sti??E«* a !} a^Tv Ccd T ??i ieral aQd Mrs - Washington. What to do rW Si ft k b w y -L dld DOt knOVT ' Hccould not face the Presi?w f ?g f +INeither1 Neither C ™M he leave the room without meeting them for the door they were entering by was the only one. woo A™ a m Cr 3 wl quickly uuder a low broad setfc ee on which I was sitting. After the courtly greetings, and the usual compliments of the season, there came from under the settee on which I was sitting, a heavy sigh, which evidently attracted the General's notice. However I only talked and laughed a little louder, hoping to divert his attention.when-oh my !-thcre came an outcry and a kick that could not be ignored So I stooped down and dragged Payne out by Whi 5; f?? Washington's dignity left him foTonce. Laugh I Why he fairly roared ! He nearly went into convulsions. The sf^ht ot that boy in that gown, all so unexpectedly, coming wrong end first from under my scat— it was too much."