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KING EDWARD VII.
Sometimes he was espousing the cause of simple heroism in humble life, for which he always had a particular delight.
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Our hearts ought always to go with those brave and gallant men who seek to rescue the lives of their fellow countrymen in all weathers and in all times, by day or night.
(Royal National Lifeboat Institution, 1884)
Another day he would be speaking, with a curious thrill of fellow-feeling, of the London cabby:
One cannot think without pity of these poor men sitting on their cabs in the cold east wind with which we are well acquainted.
(1879)
And, again, he would pay a hearty tribute to the men of the green railway flag.
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