Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-02-08
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The Prince OF Wales Glad that his Sor
Albert Can Assist Him-Albert's Lit.
tie Joke.

I The Prince OF Wales Glad that his Son
Albert Can Assist Him-Albert's Lit
tie Joke.
On his return from bis visit to Parlia-
ment House, which was so recently Guy
Fawkesed, and where journeymen car
I penters are now working day and night
with saw and hammer to make a new
House OF Commons, says an alleged London
| telephone 10 the New York Journal. the
Prince Of Wales espied a can Of milk in
| his basement and was taken with a sud
den faintness. A book agent who hap
! pened TO be ringing the front doorbeIl,
and the cabman who had brought the
Prince carried him up the front steps of
his handsome bro wnstone palace, which
/ IS IN the most fashionable part Of Maryle-
bone. The book agent tripped down the
/ front steps TO get the Princes cOrOnet.
which mad fallen on the sidewalk and
/ then rolled into the gutter, and which an
Italian Tag-picker from Seven Dials was
( now putting into his bag. The book agent
/ WTested II from the rag-picker and threat
/ ened him with State trial for treason.
The cOrOnet was pnt back on the
! Princes head and the book agent left him
and sample copy Of the Life Of P. I.
Barnum."
A few moments later young Prince AL
best, who is just turned 81, arrived
/ flushed with pride from the opening Of the
new " hittington Club in Whitechapel.
He had behaved very handsomely and was
much elated. The old Prince and the
young Princeling shook hands warmly.
''Did you make that s. speech bought
you in Fleet street," asked Wales Of his
son when the first transport of their
meeting was over.
Il did," said young Prince Albert with
pride, land it was big success. Three
or four lines Of it slipped out of my mem
DRY, but threw in poem which l once
| learned at school as a quotation and got
along all right"
"Well. Albert, Pm glad to hear it." re-
Piled Wales. "Tve been selling pin
cushions at charity fairs and laying the
cOrner-stOnes Of founding asylums for 30
years, and | am glad that you may now
enjoy it for a while. / have walked with
the blind and talked with the deaf,
and tiattered the feeble-minded and bowed
to beadles, and dined with provincial
Mayors till l am heartily tired OF it. The
greatest pleasures clog after a time, and
perhaps some day you will turn with
longing from the brilliant gayety and eX-
citement of this kind of life. You Will
some day be weary of being dressed up
like cavalier in Sanger & Wamhell's
menagerie TO lay the cornerstone of a new
Masonic Temple in Seedville, Somerset
shire; you will grow tired of laying the
first brick in the new pier at Herringville.
which has fleet Of three boats and four
teen inhabitants, who move away in the
winter. You will become tatigued with
eternally committing flashes of wit, in
spiratiOns, bright repartee, spontaneous
thoughts and temporaneous speeches TO
use at public dinners, which you will
have to attend from eight to nine times a
week. You will soon regard three public
dinners in twenty-four hours as a small
days Ork. When first | was Prince |
tried to have my brother Albert take
these public duties off my hands, but he
said it was too big an assignment and the
public wouldn't have anybody but me.
Then l tried 10 divide up the work, to
have one Prince take the blind asylums,
another the charity fairs, third the hos
pitfalls and founding homes, fourth the
public dinners and parades, but they all
said that they would run away from
home and 20 20 sea, or do something else
that would have broken your grand
mot4er's heart; so for 80 years have been
peripatetlc advertisement for everybody
and everything"
Every good, tather,'' said young Prince
Albert; I'VE will divide the cares OF State.
l snall 20 to the .uDlic dinners and you go
to the dynamite explosions"