CONTENTS. xi 



CHAPTER VL 



Younger Sister Pleasant Gallop Younger Brother 

 Pleasant Swim Dreadful Disaster at Sea A Naval Ball 

 Self-confidence Domestic Sorrow New Branch of an 

 Old Acquaintance Career of an Officer A Distressed 

 Mother, her Trials and her Death Pleasant Life A 

 Welcome Visitor Sad Calamity A Trio Duel Plea- 

 sant Body Companion The Comets of 1858 and of 1811 

 Description of Astronomers .... 184 



\ 



CHAPTER VH. 



The New Forest The Confines of Dorset A Country 

 Town Shooting Lord Chancellor Eldon Encombe 

 Sir Walter Raleigh Smoking Lulworth Corfe Castle 

 Edward the Martyr Bang John Lady Bankes The 

 Heroes of the Parliamentary Army Christian Preachers 

 Education An Original Sect A Legend The Isle of 

 Wight The Royal Cockpit A Joke The Duke of 

 Devonshire Two Foreign Princes A Prince of Coach 

 Proprietors Friend in Need A False Step An Es- 

 tablishment Wedding Breach of the Law Mr. Jus- 

 tice Burroughs Soberton Downs An Israelite Sports- 

 manA Bet A Fracas Law-Suit Judge Gazelee A 

 Dispute on a Point of Law Mr. Serjeant Pell . 230 



CHAPTER Vm. 



The War Trafalgar Sir John Moore Sir David Baird 

 Corunna Disembarkation Walcheren Camp at 

 Southsea Embarkation The Earl of Chatham Sir 

 Richard John Strachan Prosperity of Seaport Towns 

 A Profitable Business A Distinguished Military Gen- 



