SCOLDING A QUEEN.
Qiieou Marghoiitn ot Italy wa.s reel inly culled to her private telephone ■ia t'iie Marglierita Palace at Uome, .-ay« tha corrt-pondaut ot a French paper.
Tlio line was laid specially to enable her to converse with her son, the King of Italy, and she naturally expected to hear Iris voice. "When are you going to pay mc for tho coal ?" wore the words sho heard. Seeing at once that there was some confusion, her Majesty resolved to continue the joke, and asked simply, "What coal are you speaking of?" "You'ro pretty cool," was the response. "Why, the coal I sent you six weeks ago and can't get you to pay for." A striug of inwults followed, and the coal merchant was suddenly cut off by a terrified clerk at tho exchange, who discovered the mistake he had made. The Queen, says the correspondent, was immensely am-ised at her scolding, and narrated the story with much relish to her suite.
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Press, Volume LXII, Issue 12480, 17 April 1906, Page 7
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