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PHILIP ROLLO; OR, THE SCOTTISH MUSKETEERS. BY JAMES GRANT, AUTHOR OF "ROMANCE OF WAR," "JANE SETON," &c. &c. "'Tis a tale of campaigning, of love, and invadi…
OF MY FAMILY, AND THE MISFORTUNE OF NOT HAVING A LARGE MOUTH. I was born in the year after King James VI. acquired the dominion of England, at my father's tower of Craigrollo, which overlooks t…
HOW I BECAME A SOLDIER OF FORTUNE. Having completed my studies at the King's College, I left it in the June of 1626, and returned to my father's house, from which I had been so long absent…
SIR DONALD AND HIS REGIMENT. From an eminent armourer in the Castlegate of the Brave Town of Aberdeen, I had purchased a suit of plain but well-tempered armour, such as a gentleman might wear, and s…
WE SAIL FOR THE ELBE. The culverins of the Unicorn and Crown Royal fired a salute to the chief of Strathnaver as we embarked, on the first day of October, though contrary winds delayed us till the…
GLUCKSTADT. His Danish majesty, the gallant King Christian IV., whom we were about to reinforce, was at this time waging with the vast forces of the empire, an unequal warfare in the same cause whic…
AFTER ESCAPING A FALL INTO THE ELBE, I AM IN DANGER OF FALLING IN LOVE. Though the majority of the inhabitants of Glückstadt had retired to adjacent villages or elsewhere, on the town being occupied…
THE REPAST. "Welcome, Philip, as we are here before you," said Ian; "in the name of mischief's mother, where have you been wandering to?" "Over all this empty house, w…
OUR CANTONMENT. The next day's sun rose bright and radiant; the birds sang in the green poplars; the storks screamed on the red gable-tops; the great frogs were croaking hoarsely among the bron…
THE MYSTERIOUS DOOR;—A DISCOURSE ON NYMPHS. On the 6th day after our landing, Ian and his sergeant, Phadrig Mhor, with sixty of our pikemen, were on guard in the great tower at the harbour mouth. Af…
