Limitations Of Fame

In Professor Kuight's remiuiscences of Tennysoii it is related that 011 one occasion when the poet lauréate was stopping at an inn in the islaud of Skye the landlord was asked if he kuew who had been staving in his house, and on being informed that it was the poet Temiyson he replied: "Lor' - to think o' that! And, sure, I : thoucht he was shentlemau. " At Stirling sonio one asked the landlord of the house where the poet was stopping : "Do you ken who you had wi' you t'other nighty" "Naa, but he was a pleesant shentleman." "It was Tennyson, the poet. " "And wha may belie1.-" "Oh, he is a writer o' verses sich as ye see i' the papers. " "Noo, to think o' that! Jecst a pooblic writer, and I gied hiin ma best bedroom!" But the charnis of JNIrs. Tennyson, j her gracious marmers, did uot pass noticed, for the laudlord said, "Oh, she - was an angel. "