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Show A Station-Master Astonished. An amusing incident lately occurred on a Southern railroad in England in connection with the Duke of Norfolk and the Marquis of Bute. , The Duke and Marquis were fellow travelers. aud when the train stopped at Station a enmpaniou joiued them in the person of the statiou-master himself, him-self, who was going for a jaunt some twenty miles further up the line. The Duke and the station-master, who were both diminutive men therefore fond of talk, soon got iuto conversation, while the Marquis a tall, robust man was inclined to be reticent, uutil he found his friend the Duke up to his ears in conversation, when he himself joined, addressing most of his conversation to tho stranger. At length the train arrived nt B ., and the Marquis bid a hearty farewell to the Duke, and with a kindly adieu aud a shake of the hand from the stranger, the Marquis quitted the carriage, car-riage, while his dispatch-box and wraps were secured, to the surprise of the station-master, by a tall, powerful footman, and the train . soon glided again out of the station. Silence was not, however, long maintained, the station-master breaking out with the question: "I wonder who that swell was?'.' 'That," replied his companion, "was the Marquis of Bute." The an-swer an-swer seemed to dumfouud the station-master station-master for a time, but presently be exclaimed: ex-claimed: "So that were a Marquis, was beP Well, now, I do think it kind of liliu to talk to two such snobby little chaps as us, don't you?" The Duk nodded bis assent, and had a good laugh. When tho train drew tip again his Grace affably bid his companion "Good-bye," and on alighting on th platform, was received with tho greatest great-est deforeoce by a throng of Jesuit priests, this incident again setting the station-master the task of inquiry, who inquisitively asked a brother official, "Who that "little bloke was?" "That," replied the guard, "Is the Duke of Norfolk." The station-master, after this, declared he would never travel first-class agaiu as long as he lived. |