30 OCTOBER 1915, Page 17

THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON.

[To Tits EDITOR or THE '4 SPECTATOR....1 SIR,—Despito your ingenious application of your version of the story printed on p. 525 of your last issue, I believe the correct version to be: The Duke said to the captain, " Do you think we shall founder to-night P If so, I need not take off my boots." This, I diffidently suggest, is the more likely