: The Red Watch: With the First Canadian Division in Flanders by Currie John Allister - World War 1914-1918 Personal narratives; World War 1914-1918 Campaigns Western Front; World War 1914-1918 Regimental histories Canada

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PAGE MEMOIR, xi PREFACE, xxi

FIRST SERIES.

SECOND SERIES.

THE BLACK MOUSQUETAIRE, 224 SIR RUPERT THE FEARLESS, 244 THE MERCHANT OF VENICE, 252 THE AUTO-DA-F?, 264 THE INGOLDSBY PENANCE, 282 NETLEY ABBEY, 293 FRAGMENT, 297 NELL COOK, 299 NURSERY REMINISCENCES, 306 AUNT FANNY, 308 MISADVENTURES AT MARGATE, 314 THE SMUGGLER'S LEAP, 318 BLOUDIE JACKE OF SHREWSBERRIE, 323 THE BABES IN THE WOOD, 334 THE DEAD DRUMMER, 339 A ROW IN AN OMNIBUS , 351 THE LAY OF ST. CUTHBERT, 355 THE LAY OF ST. ALOYS, 368 THE LAY OF THE OLD WOMAN CLOTHED IN GREY, 377 RAISING THE DEVIL, 393 THE LAY OF ST. MEDARD, 394

THIRD SERIES.

THE LORD OF THOULOUSE, 405 THE WEDDING-DAY; OR, THE BUCCANEER'S CURSE, 418 THE BLASPHEMER'S WARNING, 432 THE BROTHERS OF BIRCHINGTON, 449 THE KNIGHT AND THE LADY, 460 THE HOUSE-WARMING, 469 THE FORLORN ONE, 483 JERRY JARVIS'S WIG, 483 UNSOPHISTICATED WISHES, 501 HERMANN; OR, THE BROKEN SPEAR, 503 HINTS FOR AN HISTORICAL PLAY, 505 MARIE MIGNOT, 507 THE TRUANTS, 508 THE POPLAR, 512 MY LETTERS, 512 NEW-MADE HONOUR, 515 THE CONFESSION, 516 EPIGRAM, 517 SONG, 517 EPIGRAM, 518 SONG, 518 AS I LAYE A-THYNKYNGE, 519

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MEMOIR.

Richard Harris Barham, the "Thomas Ingoldsby" of literature, was born at Canterbury, December 6th, 1788. His family had long been residents in the archiepiscopal city, and had estates in Kent. He used to trace his descent from a knight who came over to England with William the Conqueror, and whose son, Reginald Fitzurse, was one of the assassins of Thomas ? Becket. After the deed Fitzurse fled to Ireland, and there changed his name to MacMahon, which has the same meaning. His brother Robert, who succeeded to the English estates, changed his patronymic to de Berham, converted in process of time into Barham.

Richard was sent to St. Paul's School, and it was on his road thither, in 1802, that he met with an accident that endangered his life. The horses of the Dover mail, in which he was travelling, took fright and galloped off furiously: the boy put his right hand out of the window to open the door, when at that moment the coach upset; his hand was caught under it, and it was dragged along on a rough road and seriously mutilated. The surgeons, believing he would die, did not amputate the limb; and through the tender care of the headmaster's wife he recovered.

At school Barham formed some friendships which lasted his life: one of these school friends was afterwards his publisher, Mr. Bentley; Dr. Roberts, who attended him in his last illness, was another. He remained captain of St. Paul's School for two years, and when nineteen was entered as a Gentleman Commoner at Brasennose College. Here he was speedily elected a member of a first-class university club,--the Phoenix Common Room,--where he became acquainted with Lord George Grenville, Cecil Tattersall, and Theodore Hook, a friend of his after-life.

A specimen of his youthful humour has been preserved in an answer he made to his tutor, Mr. Hodson, when reproved by him for the late hours he kept and his absence from chapel. "The fact is, sir," said Barham, "you are too late for me." "Too late!" repeated the tutor. "Yes, sir; I cannot sit up till seven in the morning. I am a man of regular habits; and unless I get to bed by four or five at latest, I am really fit for nothing the next day." The habit that he had acquired of sitting up late continued during his life, and he believed that he wrote best at night.

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