BIOGRAPHY STORIES. BOYHOOD OF DANIEL WEBSTER 185 THE SCULLION WHO BECAME A SCULPTOR 193 BOYHOOD OF WILLIAM CHAMBERS 200 HOW A BOY HIRED OUT, AND WHAT CAME OF IT 206 THE WICKEDEST MAN IN THE WORLD 212 A PRINCE WHO WOULD NOT STAY DEAD 228 ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE _Breakfast and Battle_ 23 _Vladimir Besieging the City Containing his Archbishop_ 35 _Cavalier Personating the Lieutenant of the Count Broglio_ 47 _With a Single Blow he Knocked over the Indian with whom Austill was Struggling_ 63 _Boarding the Gun-boats_ 73 _General Jackson at New Orleans_ 79 _The Burghers Prepare to Defend their City_ 95 _Richelieu Surveying the Works at Rochelle_ 103 _The Parting between King Richard II. and Queen Isabella_ 117 _Martin Preaching to the People on the Duty of Fighting_ 125 "_Just at the Moment when Matters were at their Worst, he Rode up_" 137 _Capture of the Dutch fleet by the Soldiers of the French Republic_ 149 _Washington as a Surveyor_ 157 "_She Went Boldly into his Tent_" 171 "_'To the End of the Twelfth Book of the AEneid,' answered the 'Idle' Boy in Triumph_" 189 THE STORY OF THE NEGRO FORT. During the war of 1812-14, between Great Britain and the United States, the weak Spanish Governor of Florida--for Florida was then Spanish territory--permitted the British to make Pensacola their base of operations against us. This was a gross outrage, as we were at peace with Spain at the time, and General Jackson, acting on his own responsibility, invaded Florida in retaliation.