Show PRINCE AND JOCKEY The Prince of Wales added another feather t his headgear yesterday He was introduced to Tod Sloan the American jockey The dispatch says that Tod was not a bit flustrated If either was thus affected then i must have been the prince Sloan seems to be a representative of the oldfashioned Yankee who has long been regarded beyond the Atlantic as the typical AmerIcanthe genial offhand off-hand democrat that a free republic is i supposed to produce the unceremonious 1 unceremon-ious unconventional type of whom It has been written Hed greet a king and call him Mister And kiss a queen till he raised a blister His royal highness observed upon saluting sa-luting the peerless jockey that he was I great rider Tod took no exceptions to this remark and even condescended to confide to the prince that their opinions opin-ions of the matter agreed perfectly I Delighted at this discovery the prince was moved to laughter Being congenial no doubt the jockey joined I in heartily Sloan didnt waste any thoughts on tile princes rank He examined his clothes critically andTdecIdedVtnat hundreds hun-dreds of better dressedmenjatt the New Yorl suburljanraces exery spring Neither was the jockey impressed with the princes figure which isnt of a build to show off good togs Tod wouldnt think of trading places with the swell Briton who has things too easy to make life interesting After the Interview i is presumed the prince withdrew in his usual courtly court-ly manner to make way for the next representative of royalty who was waiting to make the jockeys acquaintance acquaint-ance |