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Show Errrphatlo Comment. It was held by the duke of Wellington Welling-ton that the tree story ot the battle ot Waterloo had never been written A contemporary relates how he once sat In a carriage with the duke and "watched him road a ponderous quarto quar-to recital ot the battle ot Waterloo. Against paragraph after paragraph he traced the letters L.' or D. L.' with a great blunt ended pencil. I ventured to ask what these mystic letters meant The pithy reply was: "Xle" and "Damned lie," to be euro.' " |