Gay, Though, of course, the Queen was was, in one sense, the great sight of the,
first in everyone's thoughts, yet regarded merely as a pageant the Royal procession had nothing distinctly novel about it. Tt was "very like the procession which many of us could remember to have seen ten years. before. But nothing like the Colonial procession has ever before been seen in any country of the world, and probably nothing. like it will ever be soon again even in this country. There not a colony or a dependency of the British Crown whose soldiers or citizen-soldiers were not represented in its ranks. It was 'a magnificent object lesson in the history and geography of the British Empire; and it was as picturesque to the eye as it was exhilarating to the imagination.
AS TO THE ROYAL' PROCESSION, the only adverse criticism one can make is that its most interesting features were too closely crowded together. The carriages containing the grand-children and great-grand-children of the Queen followed one another in the closest order; and one had not time to identify a tenth part of the escort of mounted princes before they had ed. As for the Prince of Wales, the juke of Connaught, and the Duke of Cambridge, with the exception of the fortunate few who had places in the Cathedral Yard, I have not yet met anyone who caught even a glimpse of them. They rode by the ride of the Queen's carriage, and, of course, when the eight cream-color ed horses had come in sight nobody hind eyes for anything or anyone but the Queen. Her Majesty here the trying ordeal wonderfully well. They say she was moved to tears more thin once during-the journey but the expression on her face as she passed my point of vantage in the Strand was one of happiness lad elation. I chanced to be on the balcony of a house which had been very prettily decorated, and to which her Majesty's attention " was specially directed by her daughter Princess pristi: and while the Queen was awining Uhy decorations L had thus a very good opportunity of attempting to judge of the emotions which her features expressed.
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