Transcriber Notes:
The author "Mrs. Alexander" is a pseudonym for Annie French Hector (confirmed by information in the British Library).
Minor punctuation and printer errors were repaired.
Dashes representing missing unit numbers (for Light Dragoons and Lancers) have been preserved as em-dash length ("--").
Consistently, em-dashes were placed outside " marks at end of lines in the original; this has been retained.
Spelling & hyphenation have been retained as they appear in the original publication, including any inconsistencies.
Other changes/corrections include:
p. 57 "standing betweeen two large yew trees" replaced with "standing between two large yew trees"
p.123 "but we had hardly exchanged salutions" replaced with "but we had hardly exchanged salutations"
In the ad for Mabel, by Emma Warburton, corrected capitalization of second sentence, original version: "It will do more--It will give lessons"
The cover image was created by the transcriber and placed in the public domain.