WAITING FOR THE KING.

Colonist, Volume LI, Issue 12469, 19 February 1909, Page 3

WAITING FOR THE KING.

;, An amusing anecdote relating to ™c King's recent stay at: Brighton is vouched for by the Rev. CeciT Mauiisell ?i rector of Thorpe Malsor. His Majesty was taking a walk along the esplanade, unattended, and was thus accosted by a pert youngser-. • ■'. t^ vnor J can'you. tell us: the timer -.:■■■-• ;.■'.. :-.■-..■-■ ■-«■;■.■. -'- r ■. .-. '--■ "Yes," replied his Majesty, refernng^tp. his. watch, "it's a'quarter to oiSj :,-;■■ :'■:■' •■.'.'••;."' , ■ . , ,^'' T.henks,^.;s;aid the youth"■adding, iv.c been 'ere two blooming hours awaitin' to see the •. bloomin' King, an I amt goin'- ter wait no longer " , "Neither shall I," replied his Majesty, resuming his walk. It is rather hard to believe that any British youth should be so untamihar with the King's lineaments m these days as not to be able to recognise -him when actually. -'on the look-out, for "him, as the - Brighton youth was. But one remembers that at Newmarket many years ago a young, colonial-visitor -chatted affably with the then Prince of Wales for quite five minutes without becoming aware of, the. -identity .of his casual paddock acquaintance, and was very much surprised to learn who his amiable gossip was. "I thought : there was something -familiar in his face but I had not the ghost of an idea who he was, though I knew I'd seen him, ' was the j'oung fellow's reply when chaffed about the incident.