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Show A CODDLED PRiNCc. Young GeorKO of Wales Did Not Rallah Clono Confinement. When Prince (ienre of Wales was a midshipman on the Canada, one of his old shipmates writes to the Youth's Companion, he deliyhted in escaping j from the supervision of the captain j and physician. Tins was not because the buy was n bad boy, or one who re- ' belled against the rigid discipline to which he was held HUe any other mid- . dy, bat because the captain and doctor watched over him with the solicitude 1 of a grandmother. The prince could not act freely lilre any other middy without exciting tlielr anxiety lest he should fall overboard or make himself sick. One day, off the lonely coast of Newfoundland, New-foundland, part of the ship's compan' got leave to go seine-fishing and, for a wonder, the captain permitted the prince to go, too. We pulled a long distance from the ship. It was a clear autumn day and the sport was delightful. delight-ful. The prince, who evidently felt a boyish boy-ish glee in the sport, became a regular Jack Tar for the time being. He insisted in-sisted on doing two men's share of the work of hauling in the nets and collecting col-lecting the fish. As a result, when the party returned to the ship in the evening the enthusiastic youth presented pre-sented a sorry-looking figure, with not a dry stitch of clothing on him. The old captain was shocked, the physician grew alarmed, and the imprudent im-prudent boy was forced to hie himself to his cabin, go to bed and take some preventive dose. Thus lias royalty to be watched and fondled and at the same time disciplined, till it is filled with sadness over the misfortune of its birth. |