The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1891-09-23
TATTOOED THE PRINCE.
TWO DISTINGUISHED BRlTlSHERs
FITTED FOR A MUSEUM.

TWO DISTINGUISHED BRlTlSHERt
FITTED FOR A MUSEUM.
The Possible Heir to the Throne and q
Nephew of the "Grsnd Old Man" In
scribed with HieroglyphIcs-Decor
That Was Put on to Stay.
have made the acquaintance of such
a quaint clever old retired sea captain,
with great black eyes and snow white
hair and mustache. He had been the
world over several times, and there
seems to be nothing nor nobody which
and whom he has not seen or known.
Just now we are SO acknowledgements
per intimate--with the Prince of Wales
and his doings perhaps an anecdott
which the captain told me of George,
the princes second son, may be amusing.
The captain some years ago was in
San Francisco with his ship. 1t was
chartered by big manufacturing com
pany to go to New South Wales, where
the captain was to buy 1000 tons of a
certain celebrated bituminous coal.
He arrived safely and put up at thu
finest hotel in Sydney. AT this hotel
were staying the Duke of Edinburgh,
with his nephew, a son of the Prince OF
Wales, and young Gladstone, nephew
of the great statesman. They were then
taking trip around the world, the boys
in the care of the Duke of Edinburgh!
who commanded the ship
~. 10 ~, f,Nk
ance and dined with them the first day
Of his arrival He told the boys some Of
the jolliest stories and they took to each
other immensely, but strange to say, he
did not catch a vestige Of them for thu
next two weeks
One day they appeared again suddenly,
seized the captain by the hand and in
sisted upon his going Immediately t.
join them in glass of champagne in
honor of the meeting.
where on earth have you been hid
ingT asked the captain.
In bed," answered the prince. with q
sound, half groan half chuckle, land
it's all the fault of that long legged
beast, Tom Nolan"
Then young Gladstone put in naughtt
word and raped out:
Eyes, the beggar declared that WE
would heal up in one day. I'd like tC
thrash him, but his back is yard across,
and / could not knock him down. you
know, if tried"
TATToOED WITH FAST DYE
"What the dickens did he do to your
why, see here" said the prince, and
the captain, putting on his spectacles
discovered that the princes under lii
had been ta.tooed with the royal "broa(
arrow" while young Gladstone's lip wal
similarly decorated with an anchor, two
lovely ''fast dye" embellishments which
would last all their lives
Choking with suppressed laughter TIN
captain said, 1.-The old salt has done hi
work we'll, but this need not have KEEP
you in bed two weeks
''Oh, bless you, no." said the prince
"but, You know, he coaxed us into hay
ing dolphins and mennaids and NOTICE
pretty much all over us, and oh, it
abominable, you know, for we were 500
laid out as stiff as ramrods and howlinI
with pain 1t don't matter, now it's nj
over" added tho prince rather ruefully
but, by GeorgeI I'll never be caught il
such trumpery scrape again.
"Nor ], !" chimed in young Gladstone
with an emphatic bang of his fist on the
table; "but the worst of it is, you know
that we shall be dancing and flirting al
balls and praying in church with all
these ridiculous mermaids and idiotic
what-a-call- prancing round with us
all along the line George has made a
royal jackass of himself, and AMI
"A radical jackass," laughed the cap
tain. And the signs of it will last for.
ever. You will have to dance and pray
and offer yourselves to your sweethearts,
mermaids and all, for better, for worse.
Then he made solemn grimace al
them and they all burst out laughing
and the boys invited him to inspect the
splendid ship, in which they were steam
ing over the world, and while there the
captain put the youngest up to playing
some high jinks upon the old sailor whC
had persuaded them to be tattooed-b,
way of an awful retribution.
JHE Marks REMAINED.
A day or two after the great shil
steamed away, and the captain, having
loaded the ship with the coal he was t.
get, set sail for California.
Some years after he was in Yokohama
and left it at night by getting on boar
ship bound for California. In tn
morning he rose early to watch the fas
receding shores of Japan. A tall, hand
some young man came out of his state
room at the same moment in his dress
ing robe. "Hallor' he cried, "why,
here amt my dear old captain! Ho,
are your So glad to meet you again.
The puzzled captain looked at tn
young man in vain hope to recogniz
him, when the other, lifting a splendi
mustache. disclosed tattooed ancho
on his lip.
"Oh, now know you! You are Glat
stone. What big, good looking fello'
you are, to be sure"
"All you see of me-" laughed tn
other. my friends, the mermaids an
notices still cling closer than a brother
and under my clothes Pm show 70
your circus friend. Barnum."
And then they went over the Ne,
South Wales adventure and had mos
enjoyable, jolly chat together.-Ne
York journal.