12 SIR WALTER RALEIGH. 



later, at the age of twenty-six, he re- 

 turned to England, with a Jot of Ex- 

 perience. He couldn't make much of a 

 splurge on that, so we find him, as Cap- 

 tain Raleigh, a little later on, in Ireland, 

 fighting like a bulldog against the rebel 

 Desmonds. He fought so well that he was 

 chosen to bear dispatches from the Lord 

 Lieutenant of Ireland to Auburn Lizzie. 



Fortune's wheel swung round, until 

 Raleigh stood on top of it the day he 

 met Elizabeth. She could make or 

 break any man in England in those days. 

 Raleigh's star was in her happiest 

 mood that day when she sent her gallant 

 prote'ge' up a certain thoroughfare, down 

 which the bejeweled queen was coming, 

 for as Lizzie paused at a particularly 

 muddy place with a shudder of disgust, 

 young Captain Raleigh whipped off his 

 cloak and flung it beneath her virgin feet. 

 She repaid him with a smile, and from 

 that moment Captain Raleigh was in the 

 saddle. 



