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Title: Soldiers of the Queen

Author: Harold Avery

Release Date: July 15, 2009 [EBook #29415]

Language: English

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[Frontispiece: "A fierce hand-to-hand fight was in progress."]

SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN

BY

HAROLD AVERY

LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS

1898

CONTENTS

I. Tin Soldiers
II. An Ugly Duckling
III. The Rebel Reclaimed
IV. The Court of Queen Mab
V. An Unlucky Picnic
VI. A Keepsake
VII. Strife in the Upper Fourth
VIII. A Banquet at "Duster's"
IX. "Guard Turn Out!"
X. "Storms in a Tea-cup"
XI. "Out of the Frying-pan--"
XII. "--Into the Fire"
XIII. A Robbery at Brenlands
XIV. The Sound of the Drum
XV. The Queen's Shilling
XVI. On Active Service
XVII. Under Fire
XVIII. The Battle
XIX. "Food for Powder"
XX. The River's Brink
XXI. "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again!"
XXII. Conclusion

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"Lieutenant Lawson, revolver in hand, stepped into a gap in the ranks"
. . . . . . . . . . . . _Frontispiece_.

"Another volley swept the intervening stretch of tablecloth"

"'Make haste! I can't hang on much longer'" (missing from book)

"The visitors were seized, and hustled unceremoniously out of the room"

"'Here they are! now we've got them!'"

"It was Christmas Day in the camp at Korti"

"The enemy swerved round the flank of the square, and burst furiously
upon the rear"

"The oncoming mass of Arabs"

SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN.

CHAPTER I.

TIN SOLDIERS.

"They shouldered arms, and looked straight before them, and wore a
splendid uniform, red and blue."--_The Brave Tin Soldier_.

The battle was nearly over. Gallant tin soldiers of the line lay where
they had fallen; nearly the whole of a shilling box of light cavalry
had paid the penalty of rashly exposing themselves in a compact body to
the enemy's fire; while a rickety little field-gun