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Show Wlt Half Cenlnry Aro. Alfred Montgomery was a membei of the English board of internal rev-enua rev-enua halt a century ago. At ono ol j the sessions of this body, held on a baking hot day, he was shocked to pee the chairman's private secretary come Into the boardroom with his coat off. Aa the secretary was leaving tha room, Montgomery called him back and said: "Mr. Blank, if you should find it convenient in this hot weather to take off your trousers, pray do not let any feeling of respect for the board stand. In your way." One day a canon wrote and asked if he must pay a license li-cense duty on a carriage which was only used to 'take his infirm parishioners parishion-ers to church on Sundays. "What do you say, Montgomery?" said the chairman. chair-man. "Oh," answered ho, "tell tha canon that the board will not insist on the old people going to church." He complained of having been bitten at a country "house to a certain lord who was not remarkable for his personal cleanliness. "I nover have been bitten bit-ten there," said tho nobleman. "No," said Montgomery, "even bugs must draw the line somewhere." On another an-other occasion, when his carriage ran away, he called out to the coachman: "Drive into something cheap." Argonaut. |