LORD KITCHENER.
jO.wr. when Lord Kitchener was in London he was induced to attend a big social function. and amongst the many jM«>pi-' introduced to him was a. pretty young girl.
'"Oh, Lord Kitchener/' die exclaimed. "1 am hi glad to meet you at lu&t! I did so want to know you, and it seemed I war. never going to get the cluuice. ! can't tell you how ue'.ighted I am!" " Indeed," ."aid Lord Kilchvtier coldly; " and pray may 1 ask why you wen* so anxious to know me'''—more than half expecting some fulsome flattery about 1 hiv prowess. "Why? Why, bec:ir,f<c you arc Toby's uncle."'
| "Toby's uncle 1" replied Lord Kitchener. i " Yes—your nephew Toby—," said tin» girl, mentioning a relative of whose existence the great soldier was but dimly aware. "We've just become engaged, you know, and I did so want to meet his uncle!"
"A pel aversion of Lord Kitcheners i, effeminacy. During the war a certain colonel came to him with his eyeglass fixed. Kitchener spotted it at once," -ays the narj rator of the anecdote in the I'enpy Magazine,"' " ' Coionel X .' In said. 'is it j necessary for you to wear that, eyeglass?" I' Absolutely, sir. replied the other. 'Th.tt'i I a pity. I was going to offer you a place on my staff. As it is, you must go do'to the base. I want no short-sighted men here.'
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLIV, Issue 13455, 6 April 1907, Page 5 (Supplement)
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