322 MAJOR W. HODSON. 



friend Hodson here, does he look like a man that 

 needs "leading"? Is that a man likely to want 

 " leading " ? I should like to see the fellow who'd 

 presume to talk of " leading " that man ! ' pointing 

 to me, and so forth. I nearly went into convul- 

 sions ; it was such a scene ! " 



