Book II.

_OFF TO JOIN HIS REGIMENT._

I. FIRST MONTHS OF SOLDIER-LIFE--THE PLEASURE OF DRILL--A PASSAGE OF ARMS--EN ROUTE FOR EDINBURGH CASTLE--AN OLD-TIME TROOPER

II. THE VOYAGE OF THE "VENGEFUL"--TERRIBLE SUFFERINGS AT SEA

III. LIFE AT THE CASTLE--A DANCE ON THE DINNER-TABLE--HOW A QUARREL WAS SETTLED--A DROLL DUEL AND THE ENDING THEREOF

IV. WHAT A BATTLE SEEMS LIKE TO THE SOLDIER--TERRIBLE TIMES IN PARIS--CIVIL WAR AND MURDER

V. FIGHTING AT TOULON--TERRIBLE SORTIES--EVACUATION--OFF TO CORSICA--CAPTURED BY BRIGANDS--CAPTAIN DRAKE'S FIRST FIGHT

VI. MY GRANDFATHER IS PROMOTED--AN UNLUCKY ESCAPADE--SAVED BY A RIBBON--MASSACRE OF FRENCH NOBLES--NAPOLEON BONAPARTE TO THE FORE

VII. POLICY AND AMBITION OF NAPOLEON--REBELLION IN IRELAND--ATTEMPTS AT INVASION--THE WHOLE WORLD OF EUROPE IN A BLAZE

VIII. GRANDFATHER GOES ON FURLOUGH--A CHANGE AND MANY A CHANGE--POOR LITTLE RACHEL--BATTLE OF ALEXANDRIA--THE GALLANT 42ND--NIGHTFALL ON THE FIELD OF BATTLE