TIPPERARY RIFLES.

Evening Post, Volume XXX, Issue 10, 11 July 1885, Page 2 (Supplement)

TIPPERARY RIFLES.

An incident of the Royal tour in Ireland has attracted much attention. When the Hoyal train drew up at Ballybrophy btation an itinerant vendor of walking sticks with great difficulty pushed close up to their Royal Highnesses. There ' was a rough attempt made to push him back, but the Prince beckoned him to come forward and then asked him what he wanted. The man at once replied, ' " Nothing, your honour, but to ask your honour to take a present of a Tipperary rifle," and suiting the action to the word he handed the Prince a stout blackthorn. The offering was accepted with pleasure, and the vendor was backing from the royal presence, wheu au aide-de-camp tapped him on the shoulder and placed a sovereign in his hand as a present ftom the Prince. A gentleman on the platform offered him 25s for the sovereign. He looked angry and said, " No, nor for 25 gold guineas either ; I'll keep it for ever in token of his honour who sent it to me." The result was that Prince Albert Victor gave the aide-decamp a sovereign to purchase a' Tipperary rifle for him, which he did, and bought one for 'himself, paying a second sovereign for it. The remainder of the man's sticks were Boon bought up by persons on the platform at handsome prices. ,