A GOOD SUBSTITUTE.
In Canada the Duko and Duchess j of Cornwall hud to give up promis- | cuous hand shaking on the ground that, though the spirit is willing, the flesh is weak. This recalls an incident of Mr Gladstone's memorable j Midlothian tour. On one occasion j there wag a great hand shaking '. ordeal at the window of the old gentleman's railway carriage, and he was rapidly getting the worst of it t A stalwart young policeman, who accompanied Mr Gladstone, proved j equal to the occasion. Crouching I behind the great man, and thrusting his hand under Mr Gadstone's inverness cape, the muscular "peeler" gave each comer in turn a grip that had no lack of cordiality. tC The auld man's uncommon veegorous at his time o' life," observed one unsuspecting Scot as he stroked his fingers 4i be is that," concurred another of the policeman's victims, "but did ye notice his nails ?"
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Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 4
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155A GOOD SUBSTITUTE. Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7364, 16 January 1902, Page 4
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