Adventures of a Soldier, Written by Himself / Being the Memoirs of Edward Costello, K.S.F. Formerly a Non-Commissioned Officer in the Rifle Brigade, Late Captain in the British Legion, and Now One of the Wardens of the Tower of London; Comprising Narratives of the Campaigns in the Peninsula under the Duke of Wellington, and the Subsequent Civil Wars in Spain.

by Edward Costello

CHAPTER III.

When I’m in want I’ll thankfully receive

Because I’m poor; but not because I’m brave.

TOM PLUNKET TO THE LIFE.