THE PROUD QUEEN STOOPS

Evening Post, Volume CXXVI, Issue 80, 1 October 1938, Page 20

THE PROUD QUEEN STOOPS

El, ' - £*;*• Once Queen Elizabeth stooped, and •^ it would seem that the world stood for the fact was handed T". down to posterity. %L ' The great Lord Burghley was lying ££ sick" unto death, and Queen Elizabeth » came to Exeter House to visit her r - faithful servant. She was gorgeously r* attired in swelling petticoats, puffed ; j; sleeves, wide ruff, and much jewellery. 't High head-dresses were in fashion £*;. Slat year, and the Queen saw that hers w-as higher than anyone else's. S. In factj it was so high that she could £ r not enter Lord Burghley's door. IT: It sounds like a scene in a panto- * Mime, or the adventures of Alice in ***_■■, "(he Hall of Tiny Doors. But everyone fcras grave and worried. Had the -~' Queen come 'for nothing? Must the £, Sick man. be carried out to her? Z It-did not occur to the Queen or **5 her Osuite' that she might stoop, but ** after some hesitation one of Lord *£ feurghley's men dared to suggest it. •*- Elizabeth considered the new idea. Z- And then she said: *T will stoop for _£ your master, but not for the King of i« Spam." v; So she got in after all.

Can you Identify the objects shown £2£ in these pictures? Having done so •^ write the initial letter of each in its *;" square. By talcing the letters in ad--55t joining squares and reading up, down, •X and sideways it will be possible to ~2S form the names of eight birds. Can you find them? •ickjui Z%H iK==>og<_=>«<Z>W<riH^ 13 STORY IN RHYME 'S —■■'*.' ■' -. £S (Original.) £K£ "bpring. Who is Spring," grumbled JSS Old Man Winter, ."that I should give '!2£ up my throne?" **•£* "Everyone seems to love her," said n<*£ cheeky Jack Frost, With a jgroan. ' £*£ "What has she got that we haven't?" ?*S said Winter, with a shout. "She can't "!££ turn lakes into ice, or send gleaming fj:* k snowflakes about." !£j£* "We that," said his ice-maids, i«<£ each showing a terrible pout," but it's US. she who sends the first carpet of !*£S green, and it's she who makes pretty £"**■* young buds be seen. And it's she who £*£* makes the sun shine a little bit more." !S- But here Old Man Winter roared, £2*JFBacw, haw, hawl I've thought of a _*^._J>lan —a jolly idea, I'll come back again, and never you fear. ' " '^IhefeTl b$ snow, There'll be ice, Therell be storm* Therell be rain, And people will say, "Tis Winter again." "MISCHIEVOUS" (12). City.