SUCH 18 FAME.
On the day the Duke of Wellington died, a labourer in one of the homo counties was digging in his garden, singing as hedelvad. The parson, passing by, reprimanded him for this ill timed levity, and his persistence in working, when so great a calamity had befallen the nation; for "do you know that the Iron Duke is dead V "I am very sorry for ho, but who wur he?" came tha answer.
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Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 98, 24 April 1886, Page 3
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76SUCH 18 FAME. Auckland Star, Volume XVII, Issue 98, 24 April 1886, Page 3
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