Show WAS A 5 OF OP QU S Sn San n Francisco Bulletin I Jul e of th lh the Peace oe Cook Cok of this city was W once a playmate of the now deceased de queen of or England I I am sm ai st t least Jat three thre years older th than i the lamented queen said sid Judge Cook and an since her death I have been re recounting recounting counting the lit Il tc c incidents of my m I earlier life UCe when whan she and anti I were play playmates playmates I mates mate together in the old commons at I Wells In Kent and Sussex S We Ye were of course c r cared cred for by our our j I respective r servants and were not I chummy In the sense na in which the word ord is understood under to in this country nevertheless we saw sw each other fre tre frequently frequently I and became bame quite quie well ac ae acquainted At that time no one sus gus suspected c that she would one day become b the queen of England there were so s many before her As a 8 child chil she was tiC most mot spirited little thing in the I community giving her he maids a great I deal del of ot anxiety and always cutting up childish bUdi h tricks But as ashe she developed into tnt womanhood and finally became beme queen quen the characteristics which made her he the most mo beloved of sovereigns be became became came cm the te more pronounced I 1 remember once on when she was warn a crossing a field feld near nea Windsor the wife I of a plain workingman met her and i ithe the two started up a conversation j Oh 01 Said d the former ormer have you ever i seen n the queen How I I would like to j I kiss kl her ber hand The young on sovereign i modestly mety confessed that that she was the queen and extended tede her hand to t the I plain woman who Wh 0 covered it with an i wih kisses kis and went her Iter e way a There Ther is ig i a good g story stor told of the Ute I present prent king when be he was wa a 8 lad of ot 10 years His father brought him to t the seaside on one occasion and the little fellow scampered p off Iff f one afternoon to 1 play in the sand and d with wih another anoter boy of about abort the same m age ag But the te Itt fel lows Ic ws did not take to t each ech other and anda a quarrel was wa soon Sn under w way y The father of the prince saw the te trouble i and quietly the boys who te I by this time tm were warmed wAned up and pum pummeling pummeling Ii meling meUng each ech other otier ote hi to i fine fashion The little prince was Wa getting the tle worst of ot r It and was finally vanquished right be I fore the eyes eye eye of ot his Ms father He was wasI I carried cre home on the te letters back boek and the other boy told to come along too When they reached the royal mansion to I the whipped prince was informed that for his defeat he ha would QUId be deprived of his pin money for three years year and It I would be given to th to the lad la who him hi And it was wa This story is per per e I f the tim time tr U and was common n talk tak at I i 1 |