SHE WASHED WINDOWS

New Zealand Tablet, 2 December 1909, Page 1412

SHE WASHED WINDOWS

It, is not all fun' being -a little princess, -I >can l< tell Iyou,' for they ;are ' not , permitted to 1 ' do "things 1 ( which" othei"' girls" can do.!, '' iJ "'•' >/ '' : ! " !i - ■^'■-^: now i'.i,u .in,-i t When Queen Victoria; was a 1 little girl', 1 - she l went- on'a visit , one day to her Aunt; v Adelaide. - ll Tb' -please, ttoe little <' ; princess, auntie said to' her :' ' Now, Victoria; -^6u haye 1 -' an hour. to spend with me, and I shall let. you do 7 exactly >s as you like,! , ' '''''■'";■; ' -,'• •■ ■>•■'> " ! f > •'"■ >■" i! 'Exactly as I ' like, auntie 1 ' dearf tj 7 cried" "Victbir'a l ," f clapping hex 4 ' hind's.;""' '»' '''/', • ■'■-'•'■'? - '-^ "i z,,u> { <1 k» i-aki «j 'Yes,'' said' Auntie Adelaide.' ' -, " ! . ' f - ! . <( ' .-.'>-i^" i\->u-. So Victoria" at once, said ipyfully': • f Tlien 1 ,' 'auntie deary may Ibe allowed .to; clean I 'the" windows? " ! . '• >•■ '■ \ : > *'"■"- 4 Auntie' Adelaii3e J held'tip' her' Hands in >; horror 1 ,' ibr she- 1 ' really never thoug'ht'that Victoria' would want 'to do r| any- > ; thing like that, but at last she gave her consent. -, - r '• •<*>).-, And you would have laughed if ybu had seen" h ; ow !i very serious Victoria was as she rolled' 'up her dress ■slfeeves"'and i tied an apron ' around her waist and' then' bega'ii to 'wash the windows in the' room. ' '-' "«■' ■> >-'t'-j< - -..'. ' She had often wanted to wash some' windows' at home,' 1 but' her mamma said that a little* girl' who ; . would- some day be Queen of England should ribt, ; wash windows./ *!' ' !jil