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Show When Perkins Saw King Oscar. Senator Perkins of California, who, to quote his own words Is a sailor b profession pro-fession a merchant bv necessity and a pnlltlelin by accident has had In his life morn adv. mures than fall within the ex-l ex-l trie nee of an ordinal v man Perhui s this Is be. use Senat ir Perkins fillnwed ihe sea for so msii vears One of Mr Perkins s most Interesting a .Venturis was hla meeting with King Oscar or Sweden I w is quite a, hov then si. I thn n vli t.lllrK tho s'ory vesterdus I hid silled iu tho good ship I urn irom Vvv Orh in to 8wed, n wlih a . irgo of , . ion ...id while tho ship wns In irt I lh .light I would Ilk to see the I'Ulll ,ieS-aee ,ieS-aee In Stockholm Out Xiiu.l i .ritiuini In company with a nail ir uam.d Hairs Uranatomhn, an Knsllshmati we went up tolhoiiilate Boj-flke w, wi.iiK.i to set Into the grounds and so we trawlel through a waste pli, whl h ran through the walls around the pulu t park As sum is we got Insll h.wtver we wrro utrtsitd b thi gens damns and as we dl I not know a word ot Swedish wu were in a sad plight Presenile continued tht Senator, a p irts of distinguished i eoi lo t ame along Hiid seemed Interesttd In mi liouhle One P. rson In tho nirtv sp ka English He isked us what we were doing In ths kings park I told hlm that I was nn Amtrltan hoy whi w inlcd to see tho King and hw the King lived Bin tloiit ou know he said, 'that you might be put int prison for lrs-passing lrs-passing Oh. I said I don t want to hurt the King I onlf w int t see hlm' J am King Ostur was his teply and then urtdi i Senator Perkins I learned that I m nails In the presen of the monan h ' hi Mh?1 ,hl,,Blnl ,u yu then" asked The Mi g ho replied "sent a soldier with us n show us iho palate and we ',"i J '".'J.1'11 "m fttt '"at wssn t ths tffiK1 i'" lh 5,,or Thirty sears later when 1 was Oovenur of Cstlfornlu I who shoild h a ssllor on the vucht hut Harry Branscoml He knew tne and I KRIX r,m.i "' 1""1 " hn hot seen ia h SfVrin ,ihlrt lV" ' ,.0" hm "P to Sgu I rsnrlsro and save hlil aj.lc on on or my ships -Washington Post |