A Toast to the Queen

Feilding Star, Volume X, Issue 118, 11 April 1889, Page 3

A Toast to the Queen

The following is a verbatim report of a speech in giviujr the toast of 'The Queeu' at a recent agricultural show dinner in ScotlaDd. The Ohaivnian said : — 'Nog, gentlemen, will ye v' fill your glasses for I'm at-out to bring forward " The Queen." [Applause.] Our Queen, gentlemen, is really a wonderful woman, if I may say it ; she's aue o' the quid auld sort, na whigmaleeries or laiderals about her, but i a douce dacent body. She's respectable beyond a doot. She has brocht up her grand family o' weelfnured lads and lassies — her auldest sou being a credit to ony mither — and there a' weel married. Ac daughter is nae less than married ontil the Duke o' Argyll's son and heir. [Cheers.] Gentlemen, yell maybe no believe it, but I anoe saw the Queen. [Sensation ] I did It was when I took my auld brown coo tae Perth show. I remember her weel — such colour, such hair V Interruption and cries of ' Is it the coo or the Queen ye are proposing ?' * The Queen, gentlemen. I beg your pardon, but I was talking about the coo. However, as tae the Queeu something pointed her oot tae me at Perth station, : and there she was smart aud tidy like, , and say I tae myself, " Gin my auld , woman at hatne slips awa' ye needna remain a widow anither hour langer." Cheers. Noo, gentlemen, the whiskey's quid, the nicht is laug, the weather is wet and the roads are saft, and will hat in naebody that conies to grief. t>o aff wi ye's; drink tae the bottom. "The Queen!" [Cheers.]— Sheffield Telegraph.