Salt Lake Telegram | 1903-05-07 | Page 4 | A Slight Misunderstanding

SLIGHT MISUNDERSTANDING. New York Times. While enjoying himself with friends at an after-tbe-theater supper the other night, Laurence d'Orsay told a story about a churn of his, an English actor rejoicing in the name of Charles Newton New-ton Thorpe Lacy. The two were standing stand-ing on the Liverpool dock listening to a custom-house official dropping his h's. and waiting their turn to be served. At last Lacy grew Impatient, and rushing rush-ing up to the official, said: "My good fella, where can I find my luggage?" The man asked hia name, and when it had been drawled out. turned away with a quick. "Oh, go to L" Whereupon Where-upon Lacy went off in a towering rage to report him, forgetting that all luggage lug-gage is deposited in the customs shed under the different letters of the alphabet.