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THE

MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK.
REMINISCENCES OF

SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE SERVICE

ABROAD AND AT HOME.
BY AN OFFICER OF THE LINE.
“The wight can tell
A melancholy and a merry tale
Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.”

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. II.

LONDON:
HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET.
1827.
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LONDON:
PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET.
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CONTENTS
OF
THE SECOND VOLUME.
 
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NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. IV.1
ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE28
THE PUNISHMENT36
ECCENTRICITIES OF THE LATE MORRIS QUILL48
MESS-TABLE CHAT, NO. III.63
RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST CAMPAIGN IN THE PENINSULA83
NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. V.182
HOLY ORDERS199
A LITTLE CONSEQUENCE206
THE HUSSAR AND THE COMMISSARY210iv
ALLEMAR AND ELLEN217
THE COUP DE GRACE235
A VOLUNTEER OF FORTY242
THE HALF-PAY CAPTAIN261
MESS-TABLE CHAT, NO. IV. (A SKETCH FOR THE “MEDICOS.”)277
NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. VI.:—THE BUSHRANGERS293
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