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Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 516, 9 October 1890, Page 2

Here is an excellent new story of the late Duke of Wellington • Strathfioldsaye, July 27th, 1837. -Field-Marshal the Duke of Wellington is happy to inform William Harries that his toad is alive and well.' Daring one of his country walks the Dake found a little boy lying on the ground, bending his head over a tame toad, and crying as if his heart would break. On being asked what was the matter, the child explained that he was crying ' for his poor toad.' He brought it something to eat every morning, but be was now to bo sent away to school a long distance off, and he was afraid that nobody else would give it anything to eat, and that it would die. The Duke, however, consoled him by saying that he would himself see the toad well fed, and by further promising to let the boy hear as to its welfare. During tbe time tbe boy was away at school he received no less than five autograph letters similar to that given above. The story is even more delightful (says the Spectator) than that of the Duke’s indignation when he found that a party of children at Strathfieldsave— among whom we believe was the present Prims Minister—were having their tea without jam. The incident aroused him to immediate action, and he at once rang the bell and issued a general order that 1 children's tea ’ was never to be served in his house with such 1 maimed righte,'—“Truth."