The rest of us waited while he and the orderly rode into the grounds, the lady going on ahead.
"The general wouldn't take the house.

He said he didn't like to see so fine a place trodden up by young men in muddy military boots.

Besides, he and his staff would disturb the inmates, and he didn't want that to happen.

At last he picked the hunting lodge, and as he and the orderly rode back through the gate to the grounds, the orderly said: 'General, do you feel wholly pleased with what you have chosen ?' 'It suits me entirely,' replied General Jackson.

'I'm going to make my headquarters in that hunting lodge.' 'I'm very glad of that, sir, very glad indeed.' 'Why ?' asked General Jackson.