What Are All These Things?" Said
I. "Why, Ma'am, We Always Has Pads Under The Saddle On Court Days,
Trimmed
Round with the colors of the livery, and we has fronts made
of ribbin for the horses' heads, and we
Has white hand-pieces for
the reins." This is a specimen of the little troubles of court
life, but it has its compensations. To go back to Miss Murray and
myself, who are driving through the park between files of people,
thousands and thousands all awaiting with patient, loyal faces the
passage of the Queen and of the State carriages. The Queen's was
drawn by eight cream-colored horses, and the servants flaming with
scarlet and gold. This part of the park, near the palace, is only
accessible to the carriages of the foreign ministers, ministers, and
officers of the household.
We arrive at the Parliament House, move through the long corridor
and give up our tickets at the door of the chamber. It is a very
long, narrow room. At the upper end is the throne, on the right is
the seat of the ambassadors, on the left, of their ladies. Just in
front of the throne is the wool-sack of the Lord Chancellor, looking
like a drawing-room divan, covered with crimson velvet. Below this
are rows of seats for the judges, who are all in their wigs and
scarlet robes; the bishops and the peers, all in robes of scarlet
and ermine. Opposite the throne at the lower end is the Bar of the
Commons.
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