. A wanderer in London. much. Yet for strongereyes there they are at Whitehall, including the skeleton ofhis favourite horse Marengo. Here also are relics of Nelson — the last letter he wroteto his dearest Emma, in his nervous modern hand, justbefore Trafalgar, expressing the wish soon to be happywith her again ; the clothes he used to wear; his purse; aportion of the Union Jack that covered him on the Victory,for pieces of which his sailors fought among each other;the telescope he put to his blind eye; the sword he wasusing when his arm was wounded; the mast of the Vic-tory, with a cannon bal
. A wanderer in London. much. Yet for strongereyes there they are at Whitehall, including the skeleton ofhis favourite horse Marengo. Here also are relics of Nelson — the last letter he wroteto his dearest Emma, in his nervous modern hand, justbefore Trafalgar, expressing the wish soon to be happywith her again ; the clothes he used to wear; his purse; aportion of the Union Jack that covered him on the Victory,for pieces of which his sailors fought among each other;the telescope he put to his blind eye; the sword he wasusing when his arm was wounded; the mast of the Vic-tory, with a cannon ball through it; and a hundred othersouvenirs of Englands most fascinating hero, the contem-plation of which is lifted by the magic of his personality,the sweetness and frailty of it, above vulgar curiosity. To pass from Nelson to Wellington is like exchangingsummer for winter: poetry for prose: romance for science;yet it must be done. Here among other things is Welling-tons umbrella, the venerable Paul Pry gamp which he. IlKAWINO IIY l,KoN\l!I>> DA VIM I IS 1 ||K, <;, lUKLIMJTUN llursK THE OLD ADMIRALS 295 carried in his political days in London, even as Premier,and which is as full of character as anything of his that Iever saw, and wears no incongruous air amid such tokensof his military life as the flags around the gallery which hecaptured from the French. No one really knows the IronDuke until he has seen this umbrella. Such an umbrella !If one were confronted with it as a stranger and asked toname its owner, Wellington would be the last man one wouldthink of; yet directly one is told it was Wellingtons, onesays, Whose else could it be ? Wellingtons. Of course. Among other treasures in this Museum are the jaws offamous or infamous sharks, one of which was thirty-sevenfeet long; wonderful models of boats made under difficultiesby French prisoners out of mutton bones and such unlikelymaterial — the French prisoners vying always with thepa
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