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Show i The Iron Dnlte and the Toad. 1 Le petit Caporal was worshiped and j feared, but men loved and adored tho 1 Iron Duke. Of the former, how few are the kindly human traits recorded! while of the other, to this day, fresh proofs keep coming to liht of simple sweetness sweet-ness dwelling Ions' in the minds of men. Tho following anecdote may serve ns ona instance out of a thousand illustrating I the sympathetic nature of tho great coin- j uiander: It seems that the duke, in the course j of a country stroll, had come upon a lit-: tie boy weeping bitterly over a load. A strange trio they must have been the ; lean, keen eyed old soldier, the flushed, ! BoDDing ooy, ana, Detween them, the wrinkled reptile sipiattiir, with tearless ! eyes and throbbing sides. Tho boy wept , because he was gying to school next day; he had come da'.ly to feed his toud; i the little heart was racial with grief I because he feared his darling would be j neglected when he was gone and might I starve. The duke's heart was as soft as ! the boy's, for he undertook to see that ! the toad was looked after. Blackwood's j Magazine. |