CHAP. VII.—-TOM WRITES A LETTER TO THE
QUEEN,

 
  

EYSOM was very sorry indeed to hear that

  

the Lord Mayor scarcely ever drove out
in his gold coach, so that it was no use watch-
ing for it among the other carriages in the
street. He was also very sorry to hear that
he must not go in any day at the front door
of the Palace to visit the Queen, with her
crown and sceptre.

“The Queen,” said his papa, “is the
greatest lady in England, and nobody can
go to visit her unless she herself asks them
to go.”

“And will she ask me?” said Tom. Now
that he had been to the Zoological Gardens,
and could not see the Lord Mayor in his
coach, he most wished to go to her.