CHAPTER XIY. 



THE SQUIRE AND HIS VOLUNTEERS. 



The Squire and the Wenlock Yolunteers — Commmiity of Feeling 

 — Threats of Invasion — " We'll follow the Squire to Hell if 

 necessarj'"— The Squire's Speech — His Birthday — His Letter 

 to the Shreicshury Chronicle — Second Corps — Boney and Beacons 

 — The Squire in a Eage — The Duke of York and Prince of 

 Orange came down. 



" Not once or twice, in our rough island story, 

 The path of duty was the way to glory." 



We fancy there was a greater community of feeKng 

 in Squire Forester's day than now, and that 

 whether indulging in sport or in doing earnest 

 work, men acted more together. Differences of 

 wealth caused less differences of caste, of speech, 

 and of habit ; men of different classes saw more of 

 each other and were more together ; consequently 

 there was more cohesion of the particles of which 

 society is composed, and, if the term he admissible, 

 the several grades were more interpenetrated by 

 asrencies which served to make them one. Gentle- 



