When The Queen Called

Jefferson, the fatnous American ! actor, was once asked to spend a week with a Scotch peer. Araoag the ■ guests was a brilliant and haughty j lady, who was the dauhter of an earl. "I suppose," saysMr. Jefferson, "there must have been a homespun iiavor in my American manner that amused her, for she made a dead-set at quizzing1 me. I did not detect it at first and answered some of her absurd quetions about America Quite innocently. She kept her face so well that I mig-ht never have discovered this but for the broad grin unon the smooth face of one of her boyish admirars; and then I feit for the honor of my country that, if ! hhc ever made another tlirust at me, I would pai-i-7 it if I (.-ould. I had not lonfr to wait, for, emboldened by hr j late success, she turned upon me and said: "By-the-bye, have you met the I queen lately?1' "Xo, madame," replied I, with perfect S3i-iousness, "I j was out when her majesty called upon :ne." She colored slig-htly, and then turned away. and never spjke to me again, but I was revended."