Show v King Edwards Rival J Another sovereign besides King Edward Ed-ward rules within the British Isles His I Iclngdom is Bardscy Island 1 situated i three miles south of the Carnarvonshire peninsula In Wales where he riilcsjwtth P i autocratic sway The inhabitants number r num-ber seventyseven Including the King j p and Queen the former being the direct descendant of a long line of monarchs who have reigned in the Island from time Immemorial The language spoken spo-ken Is an archaic form of Welsh and Is totally unintelligible to the people on the mainland The King In the Intervals between regal duties acts as doctor schoolmaster schoolmas-ter and registrar of births deaths mid marriages and does not consider himself him-self too Important to dig potatois and gather crabs when occasion requires He owns no allegiance to England and I consequently pays no taxes The people live on homegrown barloy bread butter but-ter and milk while the rocks afford an Inexhaustible supply of crabs and lobsters lob-sters which they are glad to retail to the wandering stranger for the small sum of one penny each They know nothing of the outside world as newspapers never penetrate to their isolated kingdom The area I of the island Is i about 370 acres and on the southeast side there 5s a small harbor har-bor which will admit vessels of about fortyfive tons In the quaint cottages many exquisite examples of old Welsh carving are to be found and the beautiful beau-tiful ruins of the abbey of St Mary are of particular interest to the antiquarian antiquari-an tBi ts |