Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1901 — How Wellington Wm Whipped. [ARTICLE]

How Wellington Wm Whipped.

Many a military hero would dread to have told the story of how he was taught to win his battles. Especially would he dislike the reminder if the lesson had come in the form of a sound drubbing at the bands of a girl. A recent English visitor to Wales picked up the following story of Arthur Wellesley at the Trevor homestead, upon the Welsh frontier. Memories of the great Duke of Wellington ,hang about the place, for his grandmother was a Trevor, Lady Dungannon, and here the future conqueror of Napoleon was wont to spend hfs holidays when a boy at Eton. Here, too, he experienced the most serious defeat of his memorable career; for, falling into a quarrel with a farmer’s son over a game of marbles, he became engaged in a hand-to-hand fight The future duke was doing well, and was about to hoist the flag of victory, when the farmer boy’s big sister came running out with a wet towel. The advent of the Prussians at Waterloo was scarcely more fortunate for the Duke and his friends than the arrival of this stalwart girl was for his boyish enemy. Nor, according to all accounts, was the defeat of the French more crushing than the utter discomfiture of young WOUesley upon this occasion.