JOKING WITH THE QUEEN.
1 here is said to be only one man who has ever dared to make a joke in the presence of the Queen. This is Canon Teignmouth-Shore, at one time governor to the children of the Prince of Wales, and a splendid type of Irish humorist. lie was -discussing with Her Majesty the question why it was that shoemakers were supposed to be so advanced in their heterodoxy and in the want of faith in futurity. ‘Why, ma’am,’ quietly remarked the audacious ( anon, ‘one could hardly expect a shoemaker to believe in the immortality of the sole (soul)!’ Her Majesty enjoyed the joke and laughed very heartily over it.
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXII, Issue I, 7 January 1899, Page 16
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