PRINCE'S LOST BET
SOUTH AFRICAN MINISTER PATS 1 . A LION. After much ta,lk of lions, etarted by one that van ahead of the Eoyal train, Mr. Boydell, Minister of Posts and Telegrapha, mentioned to the Prince of Wales that in the circus of Pietersburg there was a, lion which, twelve months a,go, when it was a cub, he had stroked and petted. Thp Prince offered to bet tho Minister £5 that he would not again fondle the lion, says C. Ward Price in a dispatch from Potgieters Rust to the "Daily Telegraph." Mr. Boydell accordingly went to its truok with a photographer and was duly photographed patting its head. It did not resent these attentions, beyond taking Mr. Boydell'a leg in its pawsand giving it a playful nip. With a print of thja picture, the Minister claimed his wager from the Prince, who paid up on the railway platform. Mr. Boydell is forwarding the Prince's £3 note to St. Dunstan'g. The Prince will spend three weeks in the Argentine, six days in Chile, where he ttays three days at Santiago, ant) one at Valparaiso. The Argentine tour includes a week passed on Argentine estaneias and one on those of British residents. The Prince will embark at Mar dpi Plate on ■ 20th .September, and should arrive at Portsmouth about 7th October.
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Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 29, 3 August 1925, Page 12
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