The Blackguard

"Think of your sins, What made you a soldier a-serving the Queen: God save the Queen, And God save the duffer who thinks of to-morrow. God save the man who remembers his sorrow,...

"Women and wine and war! War and wine and love! With a sword to wear, and a steed to ride, And a wench to love--give me nought beside, But a bottle or so at the eventide: Women...

"Soldier, soldier, where are your breeches, pray? Soldier, soldier, get up and dust; Where the deuce have you hidden your brains away? Soldier, soldier, get up and dust. Busted...

An hour later, when the sun was high in the heavens, Mr. Ramsay, attended by a "common soldier," set out in state westward for the Selkirk Mountains. The Englishman's feelings w...

"Well, I don't know about hundreds. There's the Grand Trunk, and perhaps they carry a line of portmanteaux or hat-boxes. But I always take the Grand Trunk. More commodious. Besi...

THE Burrows girl was sitting on a soap box outside the Throne cabin. Supper was over, the dishes were just washed up, her uncle sat within reading a book of mathematics, so the...

Just behind the Burrows' cabin the ground fell away with startling abruptness. There were just two or three juniper bushes and a patch of dirty snow, then the rough edge--then s...

The Tenderfoot must see the Blackguard a mile or so on his way, but La Mancha took him by a new route which sloped down quickly into the timber. The boy's heart beat high becaus...

"Sir,--I have the honour to inform you that Mr. Ramsay has been delivered in good condition at the Throne Mine. I regret to add that he has broken my left arm with a stick of dy...

On the following evening the Blackguard, white with pain, rode on his great black charger into camp, reported huskily to the Orderly Sergeant, and straightway fell out of the sa...

One of the Blackguard's endearing traits had always been his generosity--boundless in that when he had nothing of his own to give he lent and gave things that were not his own,...

Mr. Burrows was gravely disturbed. Sufficient had been his responsibility ever since a dying sister bequeathed to him the guardianship of her child. At first he had not taken th...

Down by the American boundary a stream called Eagle Creek has cut a ravine two hundred feet deep in the plateau at the base of the Rockies, carving the banks into a medley of gr...

"Yes, in the ground just above; I forget the number. I shall have a private hansom to drive down to Board Meetings in the City; and when I come home tired in the evening you sha...

The Colonel smiled. "Well, I don't grudge them--we've had a good mistress to serve, besides fine work to do for her, breaking in this rough young country; but perhaps it's just...

The Blackguard was a terror to evil-minded horses, heavy enough when he chose to almost break their backs, strong enough to inflict most merciless punishment, alert to outwit al...

The Blackguard, coming to the mill at high noon, found it a smouldering ruin, and the woods above a smoking waste, full of charred trunks. Going round by way of the Tough Nut Cl...

Great was the stir and turmoil at Wild Horse Creek. Long before daylight, while all the gear was stiff with a rime of frost, tents were struck, kit bags loaded, blankets rolled;...

Deep lay the snow in Kootenay. All across the prairies the great drifts were like ocean rollers frozen,--against the clumps of timber they were heaped like winter surf, around t...