Rensselaer Standard, Volume 1, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1879 — A Story About Victor Emmamuel. [ARTICLE]

A Story About Victor Emmamuel.

Temple Bar. One day a peasant woman took a basket of eggs to the house where the royal party was lodged. At the door she met an individual who greeted her politely, and on finding out her errand carried the basket to the kitchen, which done, he returned with a handful of small coins. Emboldened by so much condescension, the good woman mustered up courage to mention her great desire to set eyes on the King, Victor Emmanual. “Why, that’s me!" said the person with whom she was speaking. She looked at him scrutinizingly; then, after some seconds of mute contemplation, she exclaimed: “Oh, never/ You won’t get me to believe that. Buch a sweet and beautiful woman as the Queen would never have marrried a man si beurt." The King (for it was he) dismissed her with an extra piece of money, and proceeded in all haste to ask some peasants what was the meaning of si beurt “Bo ugly," was the reply. Victor Emmanuel related this small Incident with the greatest gusto.