PRINCESSES AT ZOO.
HOLIDAY FROM SOLEMNITY. RIDE ON SHETLAND PONY. • LONDON, June 30. A fat penguin, one of the old and knowing school, waddled toward Princess Elizabeth at the Zoo, and demanded a titbit by excitedly flapping it 9 wings.
Princess Elizabeth, attracted by its Charlie Chaplin ways, bent down and patted the whimsical bird, but instantly drew back, and, with a wry face, exclaimed: “Oh, what a mess. Be is all slimy.”
Princess Margaret Rose, and a group •of their little friends, arid hosts of awed, admiring schoolchildren, who were looking on, laughed with her at her surprise. It was a rare day for the , little. Princesses. The circumstances were in sharp contrast to the" pomp and solemnity which have hitherto encompassed all their public appearances since the Coronation.
No preparations were made for their unexpected visit. When Princess Elizarbeth swung into the saddle of Iris, the diminutive Shetland pony, the children were wildly delighted, and cried: “Gee un, Neddy.”
Tiny Tim, one of the brown bears, obligingly rolled liimself into - ft snug fur ball and turned over and over by way of thanks for the honey and condensed milk with which the Princesses plied him.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 57, Issue 236, 17 July 1937, Page 7
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