Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1900-05-12
EVAN STEPHENS IN WALES.
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pany with a host Of notable people. in
Guiding murderers thieves and poets
az Madam Taussauds. for our special
benefit To my fancy the eaIly mon
arChs have the sweetest facial express
sion such kindly blue eyes / don't
Know where madam got the models
| from but I think even grand old Victor
| la might envy their faces, We became
40 familiar with nobility here that had
/ n modern monarch come our way / fear
we would forget proper decOrum ana
| stare 900 him. / forgot 20 tell you OF the
] DAY we lived at Windsor Castle. The
/ queen had 90 60 20 Ireland ON her err
/ rand relative TO the troublesome Beers,
| and 90 the great relief of the rest IN the
| castle. I hastened 90 supply her place,
/ was received by several dear old SER
| wants Of Tier majesty who spent
hours On entertaining me. even showing
NEEDN'T tell anyOne-her majesty's
jewels presents feathers, paintings
ana lots of her f0refathers' old swords
and tIn helmets, Guards with NUTS on
their heads stood upright at
OF students came roulcNng by, and one
insolently walked up and saluted one OF
them. The police sent him home very
quickly We then paraded ourselves
down the magnificent avenue Of Wind
sor park where we saw hundreds Of
deer praz.ng around Ike sheep on the
soft green grass under the great oaks.
They were so tame they had lost the
charm OF the fleet footed sweet-eyed
deer of our mountain home. The great
Thames river wound around here,
stream no larger than Jordan. yet the
greatest city on earth Is encamped upon
lt-thpnks 90 The ocean tides that creep
up 600 float the ships ] will give fun
particulars of our visit 90 the British |
Museum when ! write a book on the |
Rise and Fan OF Nations from Adam |
down towel myseIf-Stephens hay-
ing trod where the kings and |
queens have trodden I'm Windsor |
and Kenslngton; we have called |
on the prince OF Wales at Buck
ingham: been IN parliament and
the House Of Commons escaped the
tower Of London and rs horrors
stepped softly over the tomb stone Of
Handel, Shakespeare and the sleeping
dust Of many others az Westminster,
whose deeds live on 10 mould the lives
Of the present and the future.
IN WALES.
leave London under It's pail OF smoke
ana haze. ana make Decline for my
dear native Wales / cannot but note
AS ] pass that the Englishman has re-
tained am the Fat OF the little isle-but
he has made good use Of &C.. SO let 10 go
at that-and that the original Briton
was driven back 20 the rugged part OF
The land, TO become rugged himself |
with TO- The sky clears, the sun smiles.
the fields turn a deeper. darker green.
ana the prlmroses In clusters open their
great Wide. sweet eyes at me from
every hin side and hedge, ditto the but
.ercups, and here and there the cow
slips stand like sentnels ln the grass.
while daisies dot the fields like little |
pebbles. The higher ana more rugged
hills have patches of very dark green
With yellow trimmings II Is the
broom natlve sagebrush, only very
1ncty) and the patches VI brown are
asst years brake" our noun
ain ferns. The entire country
BECOMES checkerboard Of small
Ie'ts. each surrounded with
hedge. ROads-regular "drives'-wind |
everywhere, and streams mark the
outlines OF every winding valley. Straw
Matched cottages and farm houses dot