GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE PRINCE OF WALES.

Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3452, 17 January 1880, Page 1

GOOD STORIES ABOUT THE PRINCE OF WALES.

The Prince of Wales has scored several points in the'line of popularity this summer, at which one may be the more satisfied because he never aims at popularity. Instead of the rumours of fast flirtation at Trouville or elsewhere, which ia othtr summers have reached the dubs and percolated among the people, the gossip this year is all of a healthy, hearty, rustic kind, such as pater/amilim loves to rehearse to his daughter! as proof that the Prince has sown his wild oats, and that the high character of the throne is safe. The Prince has been picnicing in Devonshire, and yachting and making himself agreeable to humble people. On one occasion while pic-nicing with aristocratic hosts it is found the cream has been left behind; tea is ready all but that. The Prince espies ia the distance another pic-mcing> party, rushes off, and explains to the ladies the melancholy condition his party is in. He cries, "We are creamless!" The ladies give him plenty of cream, not knowing to whom they were giving it— for the Prince has a taking way among ladies which would avail him were he only Mr A. Edwards. And now behold the Prince walking o'er moer and fen, o'er lonely sands by the wild eea waves, bear* ing a jug full of cream without spilling it! This will remain for some future laureate to place among the Idyls of the —King? or Emperor? Tbe other day the Prince concluded he would like to see the interior of Kent's Hole, which is just outside Torquay. Popular tradition says that the cavern's name is derived from the circumstance that a dog which went in there once came above ground in Sent county, about 180 miles. But the clerical tradition is that it is a by-way to an unmentionable place where the Prince of Darkness forges fossil remains for sceptics, to fling at Moses. The scientific exploration of this cavern is under tbe official superintendence of the geologist Pengelly ; and it being necessary that a cave in which human remains are found along with extinct animals should not be tampered with by fanatics, care is taken that parties shall not be admitted to the important part of the cave without Pengelly's permission. Pengelly is nearly always there, but he happened to be absent when the Prince called. The Prince knew nothing of the regulations; he walked about two miles to the spot; he found there a boy of sixteen at the door. .As he was entering the boy said; " You can't go without a candle." " Will, you please give me * candle?" asked the Prince. "I am ordered not to give a candle unless Mr Pengelly tells me, and he is away now." So spake the boy, and a fire breathing dragon could not have been a more effectual guardian of that Hades. The Prince asked the boy for a light, lit his cigar, gave the lad a piece of silver and trudged back again, no doubt reflecting On Frederick the Great's definition, " a Prince is only the first of subjects." well enough translated in the motto Ich dien. Finally, it is pleasant to know that the Prince of Wales, having sent his sons on a voyage round the world, has gone in his yacht to Copenhagen, no doubt to visit his wife's relations.—London Corr. Cincinnati Commercial.