Show THE DUKE AND THE TOAD A hew and story of the famon napoleon was worshiped and feared but men loved and adored the iron duke of the former how few are the kindly fiuman traits record edl while of the other to this day fresh proofs keep coming to licht of simple sweetness dwelling long ia the minds of men the following anecdote concerning a letter lately exhumed may serve as one instance out of a thousand illustrating the sympathetic nature of the great commander the letter says a recent writer was in some such terms as these field marshal the duke of wellington bes to inform william harris that his toad is alive and wall it seems that the dulce in the course of a country stroll had come kupyn a little boy weeping bitterly over a toad A strange trio they must have been the lean keen eyed old soldier the flushed sobbing boy and between them the wrinkled reptile with tearful eyes and throbbing sides the boy wept because he wis boing to school next day he had come daily to feed his toad the little heart was racked with grief because he his darlis fi would be neglected when he was gone and liht starve the dukes heart was as soft as the boys for he undertook to see that the toad was looked after and the letter above quoted is one of the subsequent bulletins 11 I 1 |