CHAPTER X. 



BATTLE. 



VICTORY. 



DEATH. 



HE nice tidy little old man who 

 lived in the cottage, had a 

 nice tidy little old wife. They 

 had no children, and as he had 

 earned good wages all his life 

 at the mill down below in the 

 village, they had put by a 

 nice tidy little sum of money. 

 Of this, the kind old people 

 had promised to give twenty 



pounds to their nephew Jack, who was on the point 



of leaving the old country, and going off to seek his 



fortune as an emigrant. 



As it had been arranged that Jack should call for 



his money next day, the old man had been over to 



