Rossiter W. Raymond 



sical humor of narration his earnest 

 feeling) of his " Sunday-school " in 

 London, where he used to meet, 

 on Sunday afternoons, the girls em- 

 ployed in Cross & Blackwell's famous 

 pickle-factory, and talk to them in 

 fashion " not quite orthodox, perhaps, 

 but then, again, not so awfully heter- 

 odox either ! " — and how, finding 

 his Sunday-school utterly ignorant of 

 the beauties and joys of green grass 

 and flowers, he organized an excur- 

 sion for them, securing, by unlimited 

 use of his aristocratic acquaintances, 

 unprecedented privileges for it, so 

 that his delighted proteges, conveyed 

 and convoyed by him on a special 

 train, not only had afternoon tea on 

 the lawn in Windsor Park, but the 

 dear old Queen herself came out of 

 the palace, walked among them, and 

 accepted a cup of tea from a proud 

 member of the company ! King's wit- 

 ty account of his "happy hen-party" 

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