"THE KING-OVER THE WATER!"
AFTER TWO CENTURIES. "The King—over the water!" was a tonst openly given and enthusiastically received at a Scottish banquet in London ono night recently, and in honour of King George. That sentiment has never been given at least in the United Kingdom, in honour of a sovereign of the House of Hanover, for it is tho oldest of all Jacobite toasts; and it was accustomed to 1)0 so symbolically used that fingerbowls were abolished at the dinner-table at Windsor Castle, certainly until late Victorian times, because of the inherited Jacobite habit of drinking the health of the monarch with all apparent loyalty, but literally "over the water." ' Vet when Principal J. Yule Mackay, of the University College, Dundee, presiding at the annual dinner of the Glasgow University Club in London, ' slyly observed that the opportunity was at last given to all Scotsmen to drink with true loyalty the. toast of "The King" in tho precise form so many of their countrymen for two centuries had desired, there was a roar of acclaim and a rapturous welcome for his ready wit.
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Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 4
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184"THE KING-OVER THE WATER!" Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1351, 31 January 1912, Page 4
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