“The time has come,” the Walrus said, “To talk of many things, “Of shoes and ships and sealing-wax, “Of cabbages and kings.” _Alice in Wonderland._ Once, when I was making an official visit to the South of Spain with my brother (who was then King), we were told of a gentleman of the Province of Sevilla who had had a talking parrot sent to him from South America; and this parrot had been taught to say “_Viva la Reina!_”--that is, “Long live the Queen!” But soon after its arrival in Sevilla there was a revolution, and Spain became a republic; and it was not at all comfortable for the gentleman to have a parrot screaming “Long live the Queen!” So he shut it up in a room in his house and set hi…
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