A KITCHENER STORY.
Kitchener stories are apparently popular in London just now, and one which has just recently come ort is causing amusement. During a pcin of the South African War Lord Kitchener had an orderly, a young scion of a noble house, who had joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper. He did not quite understand that he was not on terms of perfect equality with the members of the staff, and, having been summoned one morning to carry dispatches for the Commander-in-Chief, he entered the room with a jaunty air. “Did you want me, Kitchener?” he asked calmly, while the rest of the staff gasped for fear of what would happen next. Kitchener, however, merely looked at him with a quiet smile. ‘‘Oh, don’t call me Kitchener,” he remarked gently; ‘‘it’s so beastly formal. Call me Herbert.”
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Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 943, 19 January 1911, Page 4
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139A KITCHENER STORY. Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXIII, Issue 943, 19 January 1911, Page 4
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