Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-09-08

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nouncei. He entered very deliberately.
Nth bottle If ro-e-water in each hand.
to sprinkle the guests. Is Is the Oriental
custom, before they sat down Ia dinner.
The moment he caught sight of the
beautiful English girl, he was 50 taken by
surprise that he suddenly stood still.
transixed to the spot, his mouth wide
open, and the bottles Of rose-~ater raised
aloft in his hands, quite forgettul of his
assembled company.
After gazing at her for some time, and
nearly sending everybody in the room
into commissions from suppressed laugh
ter, he calmly marched up to the young
lady and said, in his very peculiar Eng
lish:
"Wherefore have you decorated your
self more than all the rest! Shall it be
for my obscrvation!"
The poor girl blushed deeply, and did
not know what to say; and the King,
perfectly unconscious that he was break
ing the rules of English etiquette,
walked round and round the poor girl,
chuckling and circulating:
"She is very fine! She is very fine!"
Suddenly he stopped in the midst of
these queer proceedings, and, addressing
the young lady, said:
care you an anecdDte2"
The poor girl, more than ever puzzled
at this question, turned and looked at me
with imploring eyes to come to her
rescue. l at once took my place beside
her, but, before could say a word, His
Majesty added:
"I-I mean are you an unmarried
woman2"
"Your Majesty" said I, ian anecdote
and an unmarried woman mean very
different things in English"
mo, they do not" replied His Majesty.
IAN anecdote is something that is not
yet told, and an unmarried woman is
something that is not yet given forth,
and they are the same; there is no differ
ence."
After insisting, in his peculiar, royal
way, that an anecdote and an unmarried
woman were synonyms, he suddenly del
uged the young lady with the entire con-
tents Of the bottles.
At this moment there appeared on the
scene the palace dwarf, Mai Lex, or Mas.
ter Little, queer little person about
three feet high. To my amazement, for
I was not informed of this part Of the
programme, he seized the tureen of soup,
which had by this time become quite
cold, placed it on the tip of his forefinger,
and caused it to make various circumlo-
cutions over his head, without spilling q
drop. He then put the tureen on the
table and vanished. The next instant he
reappeared with another dish, which,
with similar bound and flourish, he de-
posted on the table, after which per-
Torrance, the King departed, and left
his guests to partake of the sumptuous
dinner prepared for them.
At last we were all seated. But lust
as the cold soup was served, page crept
in on all fours, and hurried me off. In
one of the corridors l met the young
prince, and there was the King behind
him, coming towards us with great speed,
holding . couple of bales of table nap
kins in his arms.
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room, be jumped aud shouted: "Who can
say that am . spare man" And with
that, he handed me the table napkins.
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