ANGRY DUTCH FARMER

King Country Chronicle, Volume XXIX, Issue 4771, 12 November 1935, Page 2

ANGRY DUTCH FARMER

Or——: WHIPPED KING GEORGE. AN OLD INCIDENT RECALLED. A story of hpw an old Dutch farmer once saved the King from serious injury and thrashed him with a whip is told l?y a correspondent to a Johannesburg newspaper, says the Daily 1 Express. The farmer arranged a shooting trip for naval cadets from the Cape. The cadets included the King, then 14-vear-pld Prince Geprge, and his the Duke of .Clarence. The party set off in a mule waggon, and the farmer gave instructions that, ijojjgdy should shoot without hjg s^rmisjion.

Suddenly a buck appeared, and Prince George, forgetting what the farmer had said, fired. The mules jumped, the waggon jolted, and the boy Prince fell off. The farmer just managed to turn the waggon aside so that the back wheel missed the Prince. Then beside himself with anger, the old man advanced on the sprawling boy and struck him with the whip. The hunt continued, and the incident was forgotten in the excitement of a good day's shooting. Years later Prince George, then Prince of Wales, visited South Africa - again. He gave a luncheon to the old farmer, and introduced him to ! the Princess of Wales (Queen Mary) as "the only man who ever thrashed a , British Prince." "And," said the Prince, "a better and more deserved spanking no king s son ever had." .ii