STANLEY AND THE QUEEN

See the power a monarch wields! When I arrived here, two weeks ago,

the papers and geographers were in a fair way to eat poor Stanley up

without salt or sauce. The Queen says, “Come four hundred miles up

into Scotland and sit at my luncheon-table fifteen minutes”; which,

being translated, means, “Gentlemen, I believe in this man and take

him under my protection”; and not another yelp is heard.

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