Produced by Al Haines.
[Illustration: CAUGHT IN THE CYCLONE]
*Tales from the Works*
*of*
*G. A. Henty*
BLACKIE & SON LIMITED
LONDON AND GLASGOW
1915
BLACKIE & SON LIMITED
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_17 Stanhope Street, Glasgow_
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*BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE*
George Alfred Henty, war correspondent and author, was born at
Trumpington, near Cambridge, on December 8, 1832. He was educated at
Westminster School and Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Leaving
Cambridge without a degree, he went to the Crimea during the war with
Russia and served in the purveyor's department of the army. On being
invalided home he was appointed purveyor to the forces, and in 1859 he
went to Italy to organize the hospitals of the Italian legion. After
his return he held similar home appointments for a time, but he resigned
his commission later and engaged in mining operations in Wales and
Sardinia. In 1865 he began his career as war correspondent for the
_Standard_ newspaper, and in this capacity went through the
Austro-Italian, Abyssinian, Franco-German, Ashanti, and Turco-Servian
campaigns. He was also in Paris during the Commune, and he accompanied
Edward VII when, as Prince of Wales, he visited India. He described two
of these campaigns in _The March to Magdala_ (1868) and _The March to
Coomassie_ (1874). His death took place on his yacht in Weymouth
harbour on November 16, 1902.
Henty wrote several novels of the orthodox type, but his reputation
rests upon his stories for boys, which are full of adventure and are
mostly based on famous historical events. Among them are:* Out on the
Pampas* (1868); _The Young Franc-Tireurs_ (1871), a Story of the
Franco-German War; _The Young Buglers_, a Tale of the Peninsular War
(1879); _In Times of Peril_, a Tale of India (1881); _Under Drake's
Flag_ (1882); _With Clive in India_ (1883); _Facing Death_ (1883),
treating of coal-mining; _The Young Colonists_ (1884), a Story of the
Transvaal Revolt and the Zulu War; _The Lion of the North_ (1885), a
Story of Gustavus Adolphus; _St. George for England_: a Tale of Cressy
and Poitiers (1885); _In Freedom's Cause_: a Story of Wallace and Bruce
(1885); _The Young Carthaginian_ (1886), a Story of Hannibal; _With
Wolfe in Canada_ (1886); _Orange and Green_: a Tale of the Boyne and
Limerick (1887); _Bonnie Prince Charlie_: a Tale of Fontenoy and
Culloden (1887); _The Cat of Bubastes_ (1888), treating of Life in
Ancient Egypt; _Captain Bayley's Heir_ (1888); _By Pike and Dyke_
(1889), a Story of the Dutch War of Independence; _One of the 28th_: a
Tale of Waterloo (1889); _Tales of Daring and Danger_ (1889); _A Chapter
of Adventures_ (1890); _By Right of Conquest_ (1890), a Story of the
Conquest of Mexico; _The Tiger of Mysore_ (1895), a Story of Tippoo
Sahib; _Through Russian Snows_ (1895), a Tale of Napoleon's retreat from
Moscow; _The Reign of Terror_ (1896); _With Moore at Corunna_ (1897);
_Both Sides the Border_ (1898), a Story of Hotspur and Owen Glendower;
_In the Irish Brigade_ (1900); _With Roberts to Pretoria_ (1902); _With
Kitchener in the Soudan_ (1903); and _With the Allies to Pekin_ (1904).
*CONTENTS*
THE MATE'S STORY, from "The Plague Ship"