A Royal Screw
Queer stories are. current as to the presents the Duke of Edinburgh gave iii accordance with' Eastern custom, on leaving Constantinople. To the Sultan he offered, as a pleasing novelty, a cheap edition of the Queen's " Life in the Highlands"; to the grand Vizier he presented a shilling wooden pipe with an unserewable bowl. Among the various high officials he divided an aluminum pencil case, a Waterbury Watch, a half guinea sewing machine, a cake of Pears soap a button hook, a pocket-comb, a bottle of china cement, an old volume of the Sunday at Home, a box of sardines, a pot of jam, and a bundle of quill toothpicks ; and to show that he wasn't proud, when he had got on board ship he totted up his expauses on his shirt cuff, and found that he had got oul of Constantiople for £1 17s 6d whereupon, in a fit of sudden generosity, he went back on shore again and spent the old halfcrown.
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Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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167A Royal Screw Feilding Star, Volume VIII, Issue 76, 30 December 1886, Page 1 (Supplement)
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