The queen was not convinced of the propriety of showing any marked favour to Edinburgh so soon"the whole nation must be in a league to screen the murderers of Porteous"but Jeannie pleaded her sister's cause with a pathos at once simple and solemn, and her majesty ended by giving her a housewife case to remind her of her interview with Queen Caroline, and promised her warm intercession with the king.

LOVE'S EXCHANGE TO A SIMPLE HOUSEWIFE LOVE'S WISDOM HOME LOVE'S LANDMARKS IF, AFTER ALL...!

Another year, you cannot go yourself, To win the berries from the thickets wild, And housewife skill, instead, has filled the shelf With blackberry jam, "by best receipts compiled, Not made with country sugar, for too strong The flavors that to maple juice belong; But foreign sugar, nicely mixed 'to suit The taste,' spoils not the fragrance of the fruit.

He does not represent a woman of fashion, but prefers one of humbler station, whom he clothes in the old German housewife style.

] V THE STORY OF THE HOUSEWIFE "Selh que m blasma vostr' amor