STORIES OF KITCHENER.
m A writer in the Windsor Magazine records an amusing sceno which occurred on board an Indian liner. Lord Kit' chener was dozing in a> deck chair; a small girl who -was playing on the deck presently lost her ball among "X's" feet. The General woke up. "Pick up my ball," eho said, imperatively. Lord Kitchener irowncd. "Pick up my ball/ insisted the maiden. "Where's your nurse?" growled Kit» chener. "Pick up my ball!" •'Where s your mother?" "Pick— up— my— ball ! ! !" The rising tone dismayed his lordnhip. Ho picked it up and fled. / When Lord Kitchener went to India, Sir Power Palmer met him at Bombay and presented the senior medical officer. Lord Kitchener," instead of saying : "How d'you do?'' asked — "What'u the health of the troops in tnis Presidency this morning?" The- medical wallah nearly foil over the gangway at the suddenness of the question. ilufc tho query put all India on tht> alert!
"What a nice little boy I" said the minister, who was making a call. "Won't yon como and shako hands, sonny?" "No!" snapped the nfee little boy. "Good gracious! Don't you like mo?" "No! I had to have my hands and face washed just because you came."
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Evening Post, Volume LXXI, Issue 148, 23 June 1906, Page 10
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