PAYING TO ENTER HIS OWN GROUNDS.
The Duk&pf Somerset is more than ever convhfeed that democracy will speedily bring about the downfall of England. In despite of his own apprehensions, he recently threw open Stover Park, in order that the public might enjoy skating on tbe large pond. Thinking the opportunity a favorable one for contemplating a mob, he strolled down to the ground, and was about to enter the reserved space, when he wa&
stopped by two policemen, who demanded a florin as the price of admission. His petrihed grace paid the coin, and upon inquiry learned that a few gentlemen from the neighbouring town of Newton Abbot had taken the pond under their protection, had hired men to sweep the ice, and had impressed two policemen into the service of order. The Duke was very wroth, and making himself known, ordered the policemen off the ground, and, like (and yst unlike) Godiva at Coventry, freed the pond from taxes. The horror-stricken policemen have not yet recovered the shock of the discovery that they had charged a duke two shillings to enter his own ground.—Atlas.
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Kumara Times, Issue 1101, 10 April 1880, Page 3
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