Strategic Knowledge.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume X, Issue 3233, 18 June 1889, Page 3

Strategic Knowledge.

Once, when talking with General Grant I asked him how begot his strntegio knowledge, "i got it on the farm when I was a boy, 1 ' said the Genoral. " I learned it when I was driving oxen, feeding calves, and breaking horses, Uao day, when 1 wasou the old farm in Ohio, my father taught mo a valuable lesson in strategy." " How 1" I asked, " Well, father took mo into the stable one day where a row of cattle stood /: in their unclcunod stalls. Said he, ■Vj Ulysses, tho stable window is pretty high for a boy, but do you think you could tako this shovel and clean out the stable!' '1 don't know father said I, I never have done it.' 'Well my boy, if you will do it this morning, I'll givo you this bright silver dollar," said my father patting me on tho head, While he held the silver dollar before my eyes. ' Good,' said I, 'l'll try," and then I went to A?ork. I tugged and pulled and lifted and puffed, and finally it was done, and my father gave me the blight silver dollar, saying, 'That's , right, Ulysses, you did it splendidly, and now I find you can do it so nicely I shall have you do it every morning all winter.' "—En Perrins, "Tho wind that blows" and "tho air" lhat "bites shrewdly" would have been successfully defied by 6oleoting from tho many eicollont makes of Flannel that are to had at To Aro House, Wellington.