STORY OP THE BABY KING OF SPAIN.
An English gentleman, Sir James Nurfey, was walking recently in the Park of La Granja, near Madrid, when he sat dowu on a bench to rest. Presently a handsomely attired nurse, carrying an infant, rested herself near him. The child at once fixed its eyes on the bright silver knob of the stick the Englishman was carrying, and stretched out its nrms for it. The stranger abandoned the coveted object to ihe child to play with, but when a quarter of un htur later he wished to resume his walk, the infant refused to give up the stick, and screamed with rase nli3n tho uur?o attempted to tuke it from him. The gentleman was obliged to leave without his cane, but gave his card to tho nurse to return it. In tho evening, a domestic from the Court took the stick back to Sir ■Tames Nursey, with a letter from Queen Maria Christina, thanking him for the plea^ sure he hud caused her son. Sir James had mado tho acquaintance of the King of Sp.iin.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 286, 4 December 1886, Page 4
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