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[Frontispiece: "Hold mun fast, brave lads!"]


The Drummer's Coat

by the
Hon. J. W. Fortescue

Author of "The Story of a Red Deer"

With illustrations by
H. M. Brock


London
MacMillan and Co., Limited
New York: The MacMillan Company
1899
_All rights reserved_


RICHARD CLAY AND SONS, LIMITED
LONDON AND BUNGAY.

First Edition, November 1899.
Reprinted, December 1899.


TO
D. W.


PREFATORY NOTE
Lest a principal incident in this little tale should seem incredible,
it may be mentioned that an instance of a child being deprived of
speech for several days, at the bidding of a reputed witch, came under
the author's immediate notice less than three years ago, in a village
but three miles distant from his own home.
It may be added that the military details in Chapter XIII. are all
drawn from authentic sources, mainly from the _Recollections of
Rifleman Harris_ and the _History of the Fifty-Second Regiment_.
CASTLE HILL,
28th August, 1899.


LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

"HOLD MUN FAST, BRAVE LADS!" . . . _Frontispiece_
BENT DOWN TO KISS ELSIE'S AS HE HAD KISSED HER MOTHER'S
"THE BIRD BEGAN TO PIPE A LITTLE TUNE"
"STILL THE WOMAN LED THEM ON"


THE DRUMMER'S COAT

CHAPTER I
In a deep wooded valley in the north of Devon stands the village of
Ashacombe.
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