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Show ABOVE THE PETTING AGE. Why Queen Victoria Did Not Fondle Swazi "Infant." Sir John Illchard Tloblnson In his "Fifty years of Fleet Street" tells of an amusing incident during tho visit of the SwaI deputation from the Transvaal to Uugland at tho close of 1891. "Tho Swazi braves went to Windsor and had an nudlenco of her jnajesty Queen Victoria. They woro very graciously received. One of their number began to speak, and an Interpreter In-terpreter followed him phrase by pluaso. 'Wo como, O great mothor,' he said, 'to bring to you our babe. Take him, O mother, to thy knees; fold him to thy breast.' Hero tho queen, halt frightened, exclaimed, 'Hut whoro Is tho child? I don't seo him". Where Is ho?' 'Here, O mother,' said the Swazi, gravely, at tho samo tlmo bringing forward a big black about six feet high and weighing well over 200 pound 'Ho Is hero.' " |
