"Oh, Cornel!" cried Mrs. Gilsland, "I'll go down to you on my bended knees if you'll say to my Sam, sir, what you say to me. He's wild for the sodgerin', is that lad! and th' Ould Hunderd he lays it on till him as if it was Paradise!--and an only son, Cornel, and a great help in the business, and if he 'lists, and go to the bad, what will I do?" "But if he 'lists, he need not go to the bad," said the Colonel. "I'll speak to him if you like; but in the meantime, my 'Army List'? Is there nobody in Tillington who has a son an officer? Nobody who----" "Bless my soul, what am I thinking on? To be sure, there's the Rectory!" cried the landlady, rushing out of the room in the fervour of her discovery. And the Cornel heard her immediately commission her son, who seemed to be at a distance, at the top of her voice, to run this moment to the Rectory, and ask if there was such a thing about the house as a list of all the regiments and officers, for a gentleman that was an officer himself, and a Cornel, and that was staying at the "Tillington Arms." "And thou'll take it in thyself, Sam," shouted the good woman, "with thy best manners, and never tarry on the road. The Cornel wants to speak to thee himself. Now, mind what I say!--he's something to tell 'ee lad, will put 'ee out o' conceit with th' Ould Hunderd--run, as if thou hadst wings to thy heels!" The Colonel, sitting by his fire, gradually thawing, laughed to himself, and shrugged his shoulders as he heard this adjuration. Was he to be elected _impromptu_ adviser of all the adventurous youth of Tillington? He sat in his chair, by the fire, wondering whether the 'Army List' could be had--whether Sir John Armitage would turn out to be Armitage of the 59th--and chuckling quietly over the Sergeant's nickname, until, in the warmth and the silence, the old soldier nodded over cheerily into a half-hour's sleep. END OF VOL. I. R. BORN, PRINTER, GLOUCESTER STREET, REGENT'S PARK. * * * * * 13, GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET. MESSRS. HURST AND BLACKETT'S NEW PUBLICATIONS. TRAVELS IN THE REGIONS OF THE AMOOR, AND THE RUSSIAN ACQUISITIONS ON THE CONFINES OF INDIA AND CHINA; WITH ADVENTURES AMONG THE MOUNTAIN KIRGHIS, AND THE MANJOURS, MANYARGS, TOUNGOUZ, TOUZEMTZ, GOLDI, AND GELYAKS. By T. W. ATKINSON, F.G.S., F.R.G.S., Author of "Oriental and Western Siberia." Dedicated, by permission, to HER MAJESTY. Royal 8vo., with Map and 83 Illustrations. £2 2s., elegantly bound.