Birdshot Into Gillie

When the great Duke of Wellington, in the course of shooting grouse in Scotland, shot the fundament of a female Scottish peasant full of birdshot, His Grace testily made no apology, and a member of his entourage observed: "The good woman should have been honored by any contact with the Victor of Waterloo."

How times have changed last week appeared when English papers suppressed the fact that a Scotch gillie had been caught under the eye by birdshot fired by a guest of J. P. Morgan. One of the guests was George V's second son, the Duke of York.

The gillie, hospitalized, received surgical attention which seemed certain to save his sight. Nonetheless the bare possibility that His Grace the Duke of York might have shot and blinded one of the King's subjects was deemed a mishap so catastrophic as to warrant public concealment.

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