Produced by Brian Coe, Wayne Hammond, The book cover image was created by the transcriber and is placed in the public domain. and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) THE MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK. REMINISCENCES OF SEVENTEEN YEARS IN THE SERVICE ABROAD AND AT HOME. BY AN OFFICER OF THE LINE. “The wight can tell A melancholy and a merry tale Of field, and fight, and chief, and lady gay.” IN TWO VOLUMES. VOL. II. LONDON: HENRY COLBURN, NEW BURLINGTON STREET. 1827. */ LONDON: PRINTED BY S. AND R. BENTLEY, DORSET STREET. CONTENTS OF THE SECOND VOLUME. Page NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. IV. 1 ABSENT WITHOUT LEAVE 28 THE PUNISHMENT 36 ECCENTRICITIES OF THE LATE MORRIS QUILL 48 MESS-TABLE CHAT, NO. III. 63 RECOLLECTIONS OF THE LAST CAMPAIGN IN THE PENINSULA 83 NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. V. 182 HOLY ORDERS 199 A LITTLE CONSEQUENCE 206 THE HUSSAR AND THE COMMISSARY 210 ALLEMAR AND ELLEN 217 THE COUP DE GRACE 235 A VOLUNTEER OF FORTY 242 THE HALF-PAY CAPTAIN 261 MESS-TABLE CHAT, NO. IV. (A SKETCH FOR THE “MEDICOS.”) 277 NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE, NO. VI.:--THE BUSHRANGERS 293 THE MILITARY SKETCH-BOOK. NIGHTS IN THE GUARD-HOUSE. No. IV. “Come, you Jack Andrews, lave off your caperin’ about there, and give us that song the Captain made on the bowld Guerilla,” said private Mulligan to his comrade, who was taking a lesson from Lance-Corporal Brogan on the Ballycraggen[1] pushing-step, to set his blood into circulation; for he had been just relieved from a two hours’ stand upon the side of as bleak a mountain as ever sentry stood upon; where the keen winds of a cold frosty night had full play upon his patient and good-humoured countenance.