The Duke of Wellington, if he did not confer commissions in the army upon. little boys, went one better in. the way of promise. It is Great Duff who tells the tale in his diary. “Dined with the Spencer Walpoles- She told a story of playing as a child in the gardens by Apsley House. The old duke cams out and the children stood in a row while he passed. He stopped and said to one of them, “You are a rery nice little fellow; when you are old enough 1 will giro yon a commission in the Guards." “But I am a dirl, -dr Dock," said the child.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 8681, 14 March 1914, Page 9
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