- Aaaong the 2,000 odd people present at | the ball in honor of the young Princes at Brisbane was one pretty girl, but looking, as gab-tropical girls often do, somewhat older. With her Prince George struck up m> violent flirtation, and the damsel *bo*gh a little confused by the unexpected honour, was nothing loth. Everybody was omen amused with the" progress of the little affair, which was artlessly open and frank; but the authorities took Prince George in hand and tried to keifp him among the staid dignitaries on the dais. The boy, however, was not to be baffled, -abd slipped into the crowd, and secured bfslittlepartneragain. Becaptured, hewbs back to the platform and conJtrontcd by an indignant lady, the much respected daughter -of the Governor of the" oolonyv who assured him with cm* pha#i«: "It jou do that again I will box ; yqur ears" The boy. seeing that sbe I evidently «n»ant what ibe said, did not do it again; ■-*■' J
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Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4513, 22 June 1883, Page 3
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