When The Queen Called

Jefferson, the faraous American actor, was once asked tospend a week with a Scotch peer. Among the guests was a brilüant and haughty lady, v.ho was the daughter of an earl. "I suppose," says Mr. JefEerson, "there must have been a homespun flavor 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 might never have discovered this bvit for the broad grin u ion the smooth face of one of her boyish admirers; and then I feit for the honor of my country that, if she ever madeanother ttarust at me, I : would parry it if I could. I had not , long to wait, for, emboldened by her late success, she turned upon me and said: "I5ythe-bye, have you met the queen lately?" "No, madame," replied I, with perfect seriousness, "I was out when her majesty called upon me." She colored slig-htly, and then turned away, and never spoke to me again, but I was revended."