THE QUEEN AND HER TENANTS.
A correspondent of the Pictorial World, writing from Edinburgh, says:—"By the way, let me give you a mot from Balmoral. The Queen's capacity for business is proverbiabin that part of her dominions. The accounts of her farms she invariably subjects to a close scrutiny, and on one occasion, finding that a tenant had not paid any rent, her Majesty called on him, her factor being from home. In reply to her Majesty's interrogatories, the farmer brought out his accounts, and ran over one long page, which was entirely devoted to turnips. ' Turnips, turnips for the castle,' eveiy day'turnips for the castle,' so that instead of the tenant being indebted to the Queen, her Majesty was ' in the books' of the tenant for turnips. ' Humph,' said the royal landlady, in her short decisive way—'humph, Mr M'Turk, I imagine they must live entirely upon turnips at the castle.' Next half Mr M'Turk paid his rent."
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Globe, Volume V, Issue 583, 2 May 1876, Page 3
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