STORIES OF WOLSELEY
On .one occasion as the soldiers were dining and the orderlies were hastening backward and forward with pails of steaming soup, the late Lord Wolseley stopped one of them and ordered him to remove the lid. It was promptly removed. ' Let me taste it,' said the general. ' But, plaze, yer- ' began the orderly. ' Let me taste it, I say !' And he tasted it. ' Disgraceful he exclaimed a moment after. 'lt is for all the world like dishwater.' ' Plaze, yer honor,' gasped the orderly, ' and so it is!' Dishwater it was.
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New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1913, Page 62
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93STORIES OF WOLSELEY New Zealand Tablet, 10 July 1913, Page 62
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