WELLINGTON'S NERVE.
The "Iron" Duke of Wellington was one day sitting at his library when the door opened, and without any announcement in stalked a figure of singularly ill omen. "Who are you?" asked the Duke, in his short and dry manner, looking without the slightest change of countenance upon the intruder. "I am Apollyon; I am sent here to kill you." r 'VKill me! Very otid." .'"I am Apollyon, and must put'you to death." \ " 'Blig-ed to do it to-day?" "I am not told the.day (or hour; but I must do my mission." "Very inconvenient, very busy, great many letters to write; call again -for write me word. I'll be ready for you," and the Duke went on with; his correspondence. The maniac, appalled probably by the stern, immovable old man, backed out of the room, and in half-an-hour wa% m an asylum.
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Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 18 September 1912, Page 3
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143WELLINGTON'S NERVE. Rodney and Otamatea Times, Waitemata and Kaipara Gazette, 18 September 1912, Page 3
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