25 DECEMBER 1897, Page 15

A JUBILEE CHILD-STORY.

[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—I have lately heard an authentic child-story, which may amuse your readers. Last June a gentleman living in Cheshire was starting to see the Jubilee festivities at Birkenhead, accompanied by all his family except his youngest son, who was only five years old. The poor child begged hard to join the party, and, being told that he was too young, he called out, " That's just why I want to go, that, when I am old, I may tell my ancestors !" By this comical blunder the little boy stumbled on something not unlike one of Charles Lamb's humorous sallies ; he appealed to antiquity !