THE PRINCE AND THE CHEMNEYSWEEPER.
TOPICS OF THE DAY.
PRINCE GEORGE of Cumberland, the journals that deal in gossip in- form us, has selected a page from a class where few persons, not to say princes, would think of looking for one. The Prince, it seems, was coursing the other day, mounted on a small pony, when a little chimney. sweeper, either witched with his Highness's noble ponyboyship, orfrom some undefinable attraction, was exceedingly sedulous in his attend. mice. He stood when the Prince stood, ran when he trotted, and even when the pony galloped the light-footed climber of chimneys, scampered over the fields by its side. The agility of the boy, or his sooty complexion, or something else, took the Prince's fancy, and he spoke to him ; and the lad's tongue proving as nimble as his feet, he was invited to visit his Royal Highness next day. The boy went, pleased still better than before ; and, it is said, he will be retained in the Prince's service. The ways of rising in the world are vari- ous ; few would have thought of creeping into royal favour through a chimney-fine.
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