THE HAPPY WARRIOR

BY

A. S. M. HUTCHINSON

AUTHOR OF "ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER——"

WITH FRONTISPIECE BY

PAUL JULIEN MEYLAN

TORONTO
MCCLELLAND & GOODCHILD LIMITED

Copyright, 1912,
BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON.
All rights reserved.
First Edition Printed, December, 1912
Reprinted, January, 1913 (three times)
February, 1913 (three times)
Reprinted, March, 1913
Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.

Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
—It is the generous spirit, who,...
Come when it will, is equal to the need...
Who, with a toward or untoward lot,
Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not—
Plays, in the many games of life, that one
Where what he most doth value must be won:
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
—WORDSWORTH.

CONTENTS

BOOK ONE

A NICE, SHORT BOOK, ILLUSTRATING THE
ELEMENTS OF CHANCE

CHAPTER
I. [A PAGE OF THE PEERAGE]
II. [A CHANGE IN THE PEERAGE]
III. [INTO THE PEERAGE]
IV. [A FORETASTE OF THE PEERAGE]
V. [MISREADING A PEERESS]
VI. [MISCALCULATING A PEER]

BOOK TWO

A BOOK OF THE SAME SIZE, ILLUSTRATING THE ELEMENT OF FOLLY

I. [LOVE TRIMS WRECKERS' LAMPS]
II. [LOVE LEADS AN EXPEDITION INTO THE UNFORESEEN]
III. [A LOVERS' LITANY]
IV. [WHAT THE TOOO-FIRTY WINNER BROUGHT MRS. ERPS]
V. [WHAT AUDREY BROUGHT LADY BURDON]
VI. [ARRIVAL OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR]
VII. [ENLISTMENT OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR]

BOOK THREE

BOOK OF THE HAPPY, HAPPY TIME. THE ELEMENT OF YOUTH

I. [PERCIVAL HAS A PEEP AT THE 'NORMOUS]
II. [FOLLOWS A FROG AND FINDS A TADPOLE]
III. [LADY BURDON COMES TO "POST OFFIC"]
IV. [LITTLE 'ORSES AND LITTLE STU-PIDS]
V. [THE WORLD AS SHOWMAN: ALL THE JOLLY FUN]
VI. [JAPHRA AND IMA AND SNOW-WHITE-AND-ROSE-RED]
VII. [BURDON HOUSE LEASED: THE OLD MANOR OCCUPIED]

BOOK FOUR

BOOK OF STORMS AND OF THREATENING STORM. THE ELEMENT OF LOVE

I. [PLANS AND DREAMS AND PROMISES]
II. [FEARS AND VISIONS AND DISCOVERIES]
III. [A FRIEND UNCHANGED—AND A FRIEND GROWN]
IV. [IMA'S LESSONS]
V. [JAPHRA'S LESSONS]
VI. [WITH IMA ON PLOWMAN'S RIDGE]
VII. [ALONE ON PLOWMAN'S RIDGE]
VIII. [WITH DORA IN THE DRIVE]
IX. [WITH AUNT MAGGIE IN FAREWELL]
X. [WITH EGBERT IN FREEDOM]
XI. [WITH JAPHRA ON THE ROAD]
XII. [LETTERS OF RECALL]
XIII. [MR. AMBER DOES NOT RECOGNISE]
XIV. [DORA REMEMBERS]

BOOK FIVE

BOOK OF FIGHTS AND OF THE BIG FIGHT. THE ELEMENT OF COURAGE

I. [BOSS MADDOX SHOWS HIS HAND]
II. [IMA SHOWS HER HEART]
III. [PERCIVAL SHOWS HIS FISTS]
IV. [FOXY PINSENT v. JAPHRA'S GENTLEMAN]
V. [A FIGHT THAT IS TOLD]
VI. [THE STICKS COME OUT—AND A KNIFE]
VII. [JAPHRA AND IMA. JAPHRA AND AUNT MAGGIE]
VIII. [A COLD 'UN FOR EGBERT HUNT. ROUGH 'UNS FOR PERCIVAL]
IX. [ONE COMES OVER THE RIDGE]
X. [TWO RIDE TOGETHER]
XI. [NEWS OF HUNT. NEWS OF ROLLO. NEWS OF DORA]
XII. [PRELUDE TO THE BIG FIGHT]
XIII. [THE BIG FIGHT OPENS]
XIV. [ALWAYS VICTORY]