A SLIGHT MISTAKE.
A correspondent of the ' Temps,' who has followed the Prince of Wales in his tour through India, relates an amusing story of an over-zealous policeman. While in Ceylon the Prince paid a visit to the Public Gardens in Colombo, and a z alous police-officer, noticing that a " tall gentleman, with a heavy beard." was following close behind H.R.H., went up to him, and said iu an angry tone, " Why the devil don't you take your hat off, sir?" The geutleman replied that when he met the Prince he had occasion to address him, he took his hat off, but that at other times he remained coverek. As the policeman had not the power to compel him to walk bareheaded, he contented himself with hinting in a menacing tone, " You had better stand back, and not dog his Royal Highness like that." The correspondent of the ' Temps' adds that the policeman when he ascertained that the "suspicious character" waß the Duke of Sutherland, was much astounded.
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Evening Star, Issue 4116, 6 May 1876, Page 4
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168A SLIGHT MISTAKE. Evening Star, Issue 4116, 6 May 1876, Page 4
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