People's Pilot, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1893 — The Prince and the Policeman. [ARTICLE]

The Prince and the Policeman.

An Englishwoman told this story the other day: “I was attending a monstrous fair in Albert hall once upon a time when I spied the duke of Edinburgh standing near a booth where I was making some purchases. The rest of the royal family were in a box at the other end of the building. Presently they prepared to descend and mingle with the throng on the floor below. An officious policeman rushed about among us pushing us hither and thither. He seized the duke by the shoulder and gave him a tug. ‘Here,* he said, roughly, ‘stand one side, can’t you? You’ve got to make room for the prince of Wales.’ The jpke was too good. I felt myself obliged to encomter that officer later on and to telVhim who the quiet gentEemun was who had so instantly and. silently obeyed Ut I rude command.*