KING EDWARD AND THE GAMEKEEPER.
Not all the people of the district knew how to address the late King, and many were the merry laughs he gained through their lack of knowledge on this matter. Perhaps the most peculiar salutation he ever received was when shooting over the estate next his own, the cstai'o oi Castle Rising, the property of his friend Lord Farquhar. King Kdward passed, gun in hand, across tin 1 strip of road that separated two fields. A keeper of a neighbouring shoot was walking on the road, and to hiir the Royal sportsman, with the bluff 'bonhomie' that he always showed when in his home district, remarked : "There is a splendid lot of game about here my man."
The keeper pulled his cap and fumbled for the words of answer. At last he spluttered out sheep shly, "There is so, there is so, my Royal Standard." And the King's eyes twinkled merrily as he went on his way.
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King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 455, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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162KING EDWARD AND THE GAMEKEEPER. King Country Chronicle, Volume VI, Issue 455, 10 April 1912, Page 6
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