A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . ceremony of presenting HerMajesty with the keys of the city. Then Mr. Pyle,the Lord Mayor, made a very feeling address of wel-come. In reply she made the following touching re-marks, which I copied from one of the daily papers: I come to this fair country to seek a change andrest and to revisit scenes which recall to mind thethought of losses which years must bring. The hap-piest recollections of the warm-hearted welcomegiv
A Yankee bachelor abroad; a "wee bit" of wit and fun and some sober facts gathered during my fourteen months' sojourn in the British isles and some parts of the continent . ceremony of presenting HerMajesty with the keys of the city. Then Mr. Pyle,the Lord Mayor, made a very feeling address of wel-come. In reply she made the following touching re-marks, which I copied from one of the daily papers: I come to this fair country to seek a change andrest and to revisit scenes which recall to mind thethought of losses which years must bring. The hap-piest recollections of the warm-hearted welcomegiven to me and my beloved husband and am deeply gratified that I have been able at this timeto see again the motherland of these brave sons whohave recently borne themselves in defence of mycrown and empire with a cheerful valor as conspicuousnow as in their glorious past. During her stay of three weeks in the city, theQueen visited a number of charitable institutions, in-cluding the Royal and Adelaide Hospital and Conventof Sacred Heart and Masonic School for pleasant day the Queen could be seen ridingout in Phoenix Park with her white The Queens Last Visit to Dublin. A YANKEE BACHELOR ABROAD. 139 The next day after the arrival of the Queen in Dub-lin the report was current that the royal party wouldpass along Sackville street and great crowds of peoplethronged this wide thoroughfare. They were fromall parts of the Old Sod, and some of them wearingclothing that had, the appearance of being the stylewhen the Queen paid her first visit to women promenading Sackville street, who hadbeen in this old world nearly as long as the Queen,attracted the attention and greatly amused many ofthe passers-by. They wore immense hats, trimmedwith flashy ribbon and very odd looking clung to the fashion of long ago, wearing ratherextensive looking crinoline. They were pulling inheavily on the main sheet to avoid having it trail inthe mud. Thei
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