were carried to
the Marquis de Montcalm, that the English army was waiting to give him
battle on the plains of Abraham. This brave French general ordered his
drums to strike up, and immediately marched to encounter Wolfe.

He marched to his own death. The battle was the most fierce and terrible,
that had ever been fought in America. General Wolfe was at the head of his
soldiers, and while encouraging them onward, received a mortal wound. He
reclined against a stone, in the agonies of death; but it seemed as if his
spirit could not pass away, while the fight yet raged so doubtfully.
Suddenly, a shout came pealing across the battle-field--"They flee! they
flee!" and, for a moment, Wolfe lifted his languid head. "Who flee?" he
inquired. "The French," replied an officer. "Then I die satisfied!" said
Wolfe, and expired in the arms of victory.

"If ever a warrior's death were glorious, Wolfe's was so!" said
Grandfather; and his eye kindled, though he was a man of peaceful
thoughts, and gentle spirit. "His life-blood streamed to baptize the soil
which he had added to the dominion of Britain! His dying breath was
mingled with his army's shout of victory!"

"Oh, it was a good death to die!" cried Charley, with glistening eyes.
"Was it not a good death, Laurence?"

Laurence made no reply; for his heart burned within him, as the picture of
Wolfe, dying on the blood-stained field of victory, arose to his
imagination; and yet, he had a deep inward consciousness, that, after all,
there was a truer glory than could thus be won.

"There were other battles in Canada, after Wolfe's victory," resumed
Grandfather; "but we may consider the Old French War as having terminated
with this great event. The treaty of peace, however, was not signed until
1763. The terms of the treaty were very disadvantageous to the French; for
all Canada, and all Acadia, and the island of Cape Breton, in short, all
the territories that France and England had been fighting about, for
nearly a hundred years--were surrendered to the English."

"So, now, at last," said Laurence, "New England had gained her wish.
Canada was taken!"

"And now there was nobody to fight with, but the Indians," said Charley.

Grandfather mentioned two other important events. The first was the great
fire of Boston, in 1700, when the glare from nearly three hundred
buildings, all in flames at once, shone through the windows of the
Province House, and threw a fierce lustre upon the g