Barrie and Princess Margaret

Evening Post, Volume 97, Issue 97, 21 October 1933, Page 19

Barrie and Princess Margaret

When Sir. James Barrio, opened a bazaar recently on behalf of the band of his native town of Kirriemuir, Angus (states tho "Daily Mail"), he . said: "I shall toll you of a little compliment paid to me about a, week ago by a person who I will describe as the most gracious lady in the land. "The occasion was her third birthday, not very far from here, and she was sitting gazing with entranced delight at one of her birthday presents. It was a little toy table, with, two painted flower pots on it, about the size of a thimble. ' "I said to her: 'Is that really yours?' And she said' at onco: 'It is yours and mine.' "I cannot protend that I am able to hayo such a pretty thought as that. I think in tho circumstances I may be allowed to borrow Princess Margaret's phrase and say of Kirriemuir': If there is any grace in mo that is worth sharing, it is all yours and mine—except, j perhaps, my canary." Sir James said of the canary,.a present from Kirriemuir: "You should see him arid me of an evening, when tTie rest of London is sunk in slumber, gossiping away together about you. "I can give you all the rest of me, but leave, oh, leave me my Kirriemuir canary!"