Author of "The Story of a Red Deer"

With illustrations by
H. M. Brock

London
MacMillan and Co., Limited
New York: The MacMillan Company
1899
All rights reserved

RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BUNGAY.
First Edition, November 1899.
Reprinted, December 1899.

TO
D. W.

PREFATORY NOTE

Lest a principal incident in this little tale should seem incredible, it may be mentioned that an instance of a child being deprived of speech for several days, at the bidding of a reputed witch, came under the author's immediate notice less than three years ago, in a village but three miles distant from his own home.

It may be added that the military details in Chapter XIII. are all drawn from authentic sources, mainly from the Recollections of Rifleman Harris and the History of the Fifty-Second Regiment.

CASTLE HILL,
28th August, 1899.