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SECOND TO NONE. A Military Romance. BY JAMES GRANT, AUTHOR OF "THE ROMANCE OF WAR," "THE CAPTAIN OF THE GUARD," "THE YELLOW FRIGATE," ETC. ETC. IN THREE VOLUMES. V…
BY THE WAYSIDE. My adventures were my sole inheritance long before I thought of committing them to paper for the amusement of myself, and—may I hope—for the instruction of others. Wayward has been my…
RUTH WYLIE. Love occasioned my first scrape in life, and thus it came to pass. About the period of my aimless existence, detailed in the last chapter, the mansion of Mr. Nathan Wylie received a new, …
THE SEQUEL. Nathan Wylie was as wicked as his word; and a letter, rehearsing in forcible terms my sinful, ungracious, and godless conduct, was duly despatched to my grandfather, at Netherwood Hall. P…
MY COUSIN TONY. "Under the roof of his home," says a pleasing writer, "the boy feels safe ; and where in the whole realm of life, with its bitter toils and its bitterer temptations, wi…
THE INN. My protectors proved to be two of the Second Dragoons, or Scots Greys—a corporal and a private—who had been escorting a couple of prisoners, captured smugglers, to the Tolbooth of Dunbar, an…
ENLISTMENT. Early morning brought sobriety, with a headache, a burning thirst, and deep reflection. I had enlisted as a private dragoon: I, the heir to a baronetcy; but it was a baronetcy that would …
MY COMRADES. Tom Kirkton was the son of a thrifty and prudent Scottish clergyman, who had educated him for the Church, in the hope that he might be his assistant and successor; but the wild life led …
HEAD QUARTERS. Having now related how I became a soldier, almost in desperation and misanthropy, I shall soon show how such emotions gave place to better, to braver, and to higher aspirations, fanned…
MY HOPE FOR THE FUTURE. I have stated that I was placed in the troop of Captain Francis Lindsay, which for a time separated me from my friends, Charters and Kirkton. This was one of the nine troops o…
