



Produced by Al Haines










[Frontispiece: "A fierce hand-to-hand fight was in progress."]





SOLDIERS OF THE QUEEN

BY

HAROLD AVERY




LONDON, EDINBURGH, AND NEW YORK

THOMAS NELSON AND SONS

1898




CONTENTS

     I.  Tin Soldiers
    II.  An Ugly Duckling
   III.  The Rebel Reclaimed
    IV.  The Court of Queen Mab
     V.  An Unlucky Picnic
    VI.  A Keepsake
   VII.  Strife in the Upper Fourth
  VIII.  A Banquet at "Duster's"
    IX.  "Guard Turn Out!"
     X.  "Storms in a Tea-cup"
    XI.  "Out of the Frying-pan--"
   XII.  "--Into the Fire"
  XIII.  A Robbery at Brenlands
   XIV.  The Sound of the Drum
    XV.  The Queen's Shilling
   XVI.  On Active Service
  XVII.  Under Fire
 XVIII.  The Battle
   XIX.  "Food for Powder"
    XX.  The River's Brink
   XXI.  "When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again!"
  XXII.  Conclusion




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS


"Lieutenant Lawson, revolver in hand, stepped into a gap in the ranks"
............ _Frontispiece_.

"Another volley swept the intervening stretch of tablecloth"

"'Make haste! I can't hang on much longer'" (missing from book)

"The visitors were seized, and hustled unceremoniously out of the room"

"'Here they are! now we've got them!'"

"It was Christmas Day in the camp at