The Queensland Teachers’ Journal publishes the following from an English boy’s: essay on Queen Elizabeth : “Queen Elizabeth, who was called the Virgil Queen becos she knew Latin, was walking out one day when' she came to a puddle.. Sir Walter Raleigh put down his cloak and the Queen stepped one it and made a mess of it. Seeing this, she said to Sir Walter : ‘l’ve made a mess of your cloak.’ To which he. replied : ‘Dieu et mon droit,' which means ’By God, you’re right I’ ”
What is the precise, difference between a plain Mister and an Esquire ? asks the Epglish Daily Chronicle. This delicate question is receiving much attention from the staff of a big London business house. Tn a circular letter to all members! of the firm half are addressed as Mr and half as Esq. The plain Misters are now wondering what they have to be to become Esquires. The difference seems to be much the same as that, between an officer and a private soldier, as defined by the Punch sergeant: “Officers 'ave their teef extracted, privates ’ave ’em pulled aht.”
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Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5076, 17 January 1927, Page 3
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