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The Trumpet Major (Hardcover)
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The Trumpet Major (Hardcover)
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The present tale is founded more largely on testimony - oral and
written - than any other in this series. The external incidents
which direct its course are mostly an unexaggerated reproduction of
the recollections of old persons well known to the author in
childhood, but now long dead, who were eye-witnesses of those
scenes. If wholly transcribed their recollections would have filled
a volume thrice the length of 'The Trumpet-Major.' Down to the
middle of this century, and later, there were not wanting, in the
neighbourhood of the places more or less clearly indicated herein,
casual relics of the circumstances amid which the action moves -
our preparations for defence against the threatened invasion of
England by Buonaparte. An outhouse door riddled with bullet-holes,
which had been extempo-rized by a solitary man as a target for
firelock practice when the landing was hourly expected, a heap of
bricks and clods on a beacon-hill, which had formed the chimney and
walls of the hut occupied by the beacon-keeper, worm-eaten shafts
and iron heads of pikes for the use of those who had no better
weapons, ridges on the down thrown up during the encampment,
fragments of volunteer uniform, and other such lingering remains,
brought to my imagination in early childhood the state of affairs
at the date of the war more vividly than volumes of history could
have done.
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