WOULD LIKE TO BE QUEEN
Richard Whiteing, the novelist, was once talking with a grizzled old woman, when he chanced to refer to tbe Queen. "Oh, W I would like to be the Queen 1" said the ancient beldame. " Why?" asked Mr Whiteing. "It isn't becauso pf 'er 'orses, because if I were Queen I would 'ave a donkey cart with red wheels, and it isn't because of 'er band of musicians on 'orseback which, goes ahead of the 'Orse Guards, for I'd much rather 'ave a Hitaban with a 'and-organ; but, just think! if she wakes up at three o'clock in the morning and wants a bite to eat she. can just.teach, a bell and 'ave beef and' boiled cabbage right away 1" The moEal of the story is very pitluly put try an American commentator: "And there are a lot of us wearing ourselves out trying to become kings and queens, when, as a matter of fact, all we require to make life truly happy is just a little more beef and cabbage.
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Evening Star, Issue 12523, 6 June 1905, Page 2
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175WOULD LIKE TO BE QUEEN Evening Star, Issue 12523, 6 June 1905, Page 2
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