THE QUEEN GOING FOE THE RENT.
A correspondent of the Pictorial World, writing from Edinburgh, says :— " By-the-way, let me give you a ' mot ' from Bo 1 moral. The Queen's capacity for business is proverbial in that part of her dominions, Tbo aooounts of her farms she invariably sub* joots to a close scrutiny, and on one occasion, finding that a tenant had not paid any rent, Her Majesty called on him, her factor being from homo. In reply to Her Majesty'a inOrrogatnies, the farmer brought out hia accounts, and ran over one long page wbioh was entirely devoted to turnips, 'Turnips for the castle,' • turnips for the castle,' ' turnips for the castle '—every day * turnips for tbe oastle,' so that instead of the tenant being indebted to the Queen, Her Majesty was 'in the books ' of the tenant for turnips. 'Humph,' said the royal landlady, in her short deoisive way—' humph, Mr MoTurk, I imagine they must live entirely upon tvnipe at the oastlo.'
Next half Mr MoTurk paid his rent.
THE QUEEN GOING FOE THE RENT.
Star (Christchurch), Issue 2431, 7 January 1876, Page 3
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