JUBILEE REMINISCENCES.
[ro TER EDITOR OP TER " SPROTATOR."] S111,—Anotber Jubilee reminiscence—in this case revealing a rustic child's mind—may perhaps be interesting. In a Gloucestershire Congregational church the minister was praying that her Majesty's strength might be spared, &c., and a little girl turned to my sister, and whispered, "Lor', teacher, what be he a-prayin' for the Queen for ? be her bad a-bed? " Evidently prayer for the Queen, no less than for any one else, was associated in the child's mind with a serious
illness.—I am, Sir, &c., CHARLTON WILKINSON. 97 Paris Road, Newcastle-on-Tyne, July 3rd.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR:]
Snt,—Is it too late to send a Jubilee story Ten years ago, when every one was talking of the Queen's Jubilee, a gentle- man friend of ours heard the following conversation between two Scotchwomen :—" Can ye tell me, wamman, what is it they ea' a Jubilee?"_" Wee], it's this," said her neighbour. "When folk has been mairred twenty-five year, that's a silver waddiu'. And when they have been mairred fifty year, that's a gowden waddin' ; but if the man's deid, than it's a Jubilee." —I am, Sir, &c., Newbold, Liscard. A. H. LINDSAY.
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