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Show Kissed by a Queen An eighty-year-old army veteran, whose name is McCoy and who lives at Ballymoney, in northern Ireland, claims to be the only soldier who was ever, kissed by Queen Victoria. Mr. McCoy joined the Forty-fifth regiment regi-ment of the f.iot guards as a boy of sixteen, and was stationed at Alder-shot Alder-shot when Queen Victoria inspected the regimentr The queen asked his age, and he replied that he was seventeen. sev-enteen. "I think you are too young to be a soldier yet," said the queen. "It's at lioine with your mother you should be !" She then stooped down and kissed him lightly on the cheek.1 London Tit-Bits. |