Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1882 — Rather a Mistake. [ARTICLE]

Rather a Mistake.

Occasionally, very awkward conso. quences have been known to follnw from acting en the spur of the mometeIt is related of Lord Ellenborough that, when on one occasion he was about to set out on circuit, his wife expressed a wish to accompany him, a proposition to which his lordship assented, provided there were no bandboxes tucked under the seat of his carriage, as he had too often found there had been when honored with her ladyship’s company before. Accordingly they both set out together, but had not proceeded very far before the judge, stretching out his legs under the seat in front of him, kicked against one of the flimsy receptacles which hehadtpecially prohibited. Down went the window a bang, and out went the bandbox into the ditch. The startled coachman immediately commenced to pull up, but was ordered to drive on and let the thing lie where it was. They reached the assized town in due course, and his lordship for the court. “And now, wig? Where’s my wig?” he.demanded, when everything else had been donned. • “Your wig, ms lord,” replied the servant tremuloufyy “was in the bandbox your lordsipe threw out of the window as wo camh along^’— Chambers’ Journal.