Public ledger. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1865-1893, 1879-04-16

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queen loves to roam about in perfec.
freedom from etiquette and ceremo.
NAL, aud vet il would not do to have
her roam quite alone. She is no longer
young there are dangers by food ant
field in such a region aud, besides
there are more fools than PaSsanantS
in the world. Brown exactly supplies
the wants; he would lay down his life
for her, not without requiring two OF
three in return, and, en- attendant, he
thinks nothing of carrying her in his
arms, and perhaps a princess or two to
follow her, across a fOrdable stream.
When she rides he takes his place at
the head of the pony, and if the pony
were too troublesome he probably
would not make much difficulty about
carrying him. Brown is not a lackey
he e no livery; on the other
hand, he is not a gentleman by birth.
He has a sort of undeterminate Office
as Strong Man. He is death on all
intruders on the queens privacy. Once
when he met some reporters, whom he
suspected of logging her footsteps for
a copy he ordered them off the
public highway as though he held all
the Highlands in fee. 1t was gross
ly illegal, but they went. He
has saved the queen in a greater
strait. When young mad O'Con-
nor darted out on her from the
shrubbery at Buckingham Palace,
pistol in hand, he positively plucked
the puny wretch up from the ground
as if he had been an offending kitten,
and held him out so, clawing the air
with his paws, till the queen had
passed out of harms way. He is a
true clansman in the character of his
service; he worships the queen as
devoutly though not so demOnstra-
lively as the DOugal creature wOr-
shipped Rob Roy. He thinks there
never was such a queen and there
never was such a woman in the wide
world. The queen treats him with
the condescending confidence which
often Subsists between the very great
and the very little in our older soci-
ETY.. She knows there can be no mis-
take about their positions it is those
who are nearer to her who are kept
the hrthest off. He is the old SER
want who is also the old friend of.
the family. He has seen most of"the
children grow up. He probably
knows more about family affairs than
many a minister of state. To do him
he lets nothing out to his
more distinguished colleagues Of the
cabinet. A true ScOtchman. he is as
as the grave. 1t is rather
through the queens own frank avOw-
ais we may judge of the extent of her
condolences to him. There is nothing
in the world to show, however, that
these condolences ever pass the line of
domestic life. Brown is no successor
to StOckman, as some people who have
the happy knack Offancying anything,
once fancicd that he was. Browns
own solicitude for her welfare nav
have had something to do with this
m~isconception. If he has the deyo-
ton of the Dougal creature it is
doubled with a little of the oficious-
nessOf Andrew Fairservice. He is for
standing between the queen and all
possible intruders, and when he goes
South he finds a greater complexity of
self-imposed duty to which he is not
equal. The Highland shepherd
dog loses something of his nice discrim-
nation Of character when he has to
keep watch and ward at the door of a
London palace. He once gave great
)tfense to an artist summoned to paint
portrait of the Princess Louise by
ross.examining him as to his purpose.
if he had come to peddle the paints.
This and the natural envy of
'Jeames," with whom he never asso-
and of both Jeames and Johns
'uperiors in the hierarchy of court
service, make him about the best
hated man of the household. There
IS a sort of standing plot against him
N the servants hall which has some
spread from the subterraneans
Of the palace to the suSterraneans Of
journalism and society, and things have
been said which are only not criminal
because they are so intensely foolish.
The lower classes in England hate him
with a will, and on the most impartial
grounds, without in the least knowing
Why. If there yer a successful
in London, his head would
probably be the first luxury enjoyed
BY the mob.