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Show BRITISH PEER'S BAD HAT Exciting Experience of a Penurious Nobleman Preparing for Coronation Coro-nation Ceremony. At the time of the queen's coronation corona-tion the peers all sent their hats to Storr & Mortimer's, the court jewel-ers, jewel-ers, that the measurements of their heads might be taken for the coronets which they were to wear at the ceremonial. cere-monial. "Lord Bunborough's" hat was sent too, but it was in such a lamentable condition of naplessness, greasiness and batter that a shopman, finding it on the floor, where It had rolled off a counter, thought it must be a headdress head-dress that had been thrown there for fun by a shopboy of facetious turn and had it kicked into the dusthole. By and by "Lord Bunborough's" valet returned for his master's hat, which was hunted for in vain, till his description de-scription of It led to its being identified identi-fied with the hat in the dusthole. The valet was rather glad, for he hoped the misadventure would induce my lord to purchase a new headdress; but he little knew the close-fisted peer, who, on hearing what had happened, hap-pened, said: "Have the hat picked out of the dusthole and take it to be cleaned but at the jeweler's expense, ex-pense, mind." Grenville-Murray: -"fide Lights on English Society." |