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OR,

THE YOUNG RIFLEMAN.

BY

CAPTAIN RAFTER,

66

AUTHOR OF THE GUARDS," "OUR INDIAN ARMY," &c.

"There was an ancient sage philosopher,

Who had read Alexander Ross over;

And swore the world, as he could prove,
Was made of fighting and of love."-HDIBRAS

IN THREE VOLUMES.

VOL. III.

LONDON:

HURST AND BLACKETT, PUBLISHERS,

SUCCESSORS TO HENRY COLBURN,

13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.

1855.

249. X.490.

LONDON:

Frinted by Schulze and Co., 13, Poland Street.

PERCY BLAKE.

CHAPTER I.

ALBANY BARRACKS.

AFTER a tedious and most melancholy passage, we at length arrived at Portsmouth; when, having obtained three months' leave of absence, I endeavoured for some time to dissipate my sad reflections in the pleasures of the metropolis. These were indeed a treat, after two years' sharp service in the Peninsula: but, as they did not suffice for the accomplishment of my object, I paid a visit to my friends and relations in Tipperary; where the pleasures of the field, and the charms of unbounded hospitality, ba

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