Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 186, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1915 — Unconventional Briton. [ARTICLE]

Unconventional Briton.

Hartley Coleridge, the English author, was decidedly unconventional. It was he who stole a joint of meat from Wordsworth’s larder for fun. Once he was asked to dine with the family of a stiff Presbyterian clergyman residing in the Lake district. The guests, Trappist fashion, sat a long time in the drawing room waiting for the announcement of dinner. Not a word was uttered, and Hartley was bored to extinction. At last he suddenly jumped up from the sofa, kissed the clergyman’s wife, and rushed out of* the house. Tennyson thought him "a lovable little fellow," and no doubt enjoyed his departure from propriety, as ne did the reply of the coachman who, asked what sort of place Winchester was, replied: “Debauched, sir, debauched, like all other cathedral cities."