Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 168, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 July 1920 — The Unmistakable Cockney. [ARTICLE]

The Unmistakable Cockney.

Lady Georgiana Peel tells some good stories In her “Recollections.” One concerns her father-in-law, General Peel. He was at a banquet in Paris. Mistrusting his capability of conversing in French, he talked during most of the dinner to a neighbor who he knew liked airing his English; but after a Mme he made up his mind he must talk to the silent French gentleman on his left He gathered his French together, and hazarded a remark: “Quelle chambre magniflque!’’ he said, with many distinctly foreign gesticulations. The man leant towards him confidentially. General Peel braced himself to understand. “Ain’t a patch on our Guild’all,” was the whisper that readied Mpr with an unmistakable accent