Lady Lugard, wife of the GovernorGeneral of Nigeria, will bo better remembered as Miss Flora Shaw, tho famous colonial specialist to "The Times," and confidante of Cecil Rhodes. Sho tells an amusing story of a fiery old colonel's visit to an Indian village barber. The officer bounced into tho shop, placed his sword besido a chair, and said: "Shave me, sir; and beware, if you cut me I will cut your head off." Tho barber promptly got to business, and when the operation had been satisfactorily performed the colonel enquired: "Weren't you frightened at all?" "No, sir," was the reply. "If I had cut you at all, I should have had first rhanco. I should have finished you off for safety.''
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Press, Volume LV, Issue 16546, 11 June 1919, Page 5
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