The Loving Cup.
Tbe Jate I*ord Xyons, Ambassador at Paris, usad "to -Telatc the following iostcry of the Loving- Cup-: -JLing- Henry of Navarre was also Henry JY^Sf -Franca), I while .hunting, became separated from ids i companions, .and, feeling thirsty,, called at ! a wayside jnn for a cup of -wine. The serving anaid, on~-handing It to him as-Jie eat on horseback, jie-glected to the tindle. Some' wine "was -spilt. -and 'his - Majesty's white gauntlets foiled. Whale riding home he jjefchcught - bin that- a two-handled cap would -pic vent v, .recurrence of this, so Jie bad one made .at the -royal , pctl«ries and ssnt it to the _, inn. T>n T»is> , lirxt visit lie called again for wine, when, j to Jiis astonishment: -the -maid '<haviag ie- j ceived instructions irom ;her mistress ,^fco-| be -very -.-careful of ihe '-King'-s -cup) .pr-e-J eeiited "it to him, iolding it Jiersslf by each j of its handles. Ai or.co the Jiappy idea | struck the King of a cup with three handles, • ■wliich was .promptly acted upon, his | Majesty quaintly remarking^' "Surely otit of tbrea handles I sthall l:e able to get cne."
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Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 79
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189The Loving Cup. Otago Witness, Issue 2647, 7 December 1904, Page 79
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