Her Majesty Blocking the Way. —One clay, some years ago, when her Majesty was standing on the public road near Balmoral sketching the castle from a particular point a flock of sheep approached. Her Majesty, being intent on her work, took little notice of the flock, and merely moved a little nearer the side of the road. A boy in charge of the sheep shouted at the top of a stentorian voice, “ Stan ’oot ’o the road, ’oman, and lat the sheep gae by! ” Her Majesty not moving out of the. way quite so fast as the shepherd wished, he again shouted, “ Fat are ye stan’in’ there for? Gang oot o’ that and lat the sheep pass ! ” One of her Majesty’s attendants, who had been at a distance, on hearing his royal mistress thus rudely assailed went up to the shepherd and thus addressed him, “Do you know who it is you have been speaking so rudely to, boy ? ” “ Na—l neither ken jnor care ; but, be she fa’ she likes, Idle sudna be i’ the sheep’s road.” “ That’s the queen,” said the official. The boy looked astonished, and after recovering his senses, said, with great simplicity, “The Queen! Od, fat way disna she pit on daes that fouk can lien her ? ”
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Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 79, 18 September 1878, Page 2
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211Untitled Temuka Leader, Volume I, Issue 79, 18 September 1878, Page 2
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