Henty George Alfred. The Young Colonists: A Story of the Zulu and Boer Wars
Preface
Chapter One. A Snow-Drift
Chapter Two. The Red Flag
Chapter Three. The Farm
Chapter Four. The Outbreak of War
Chapter Five. Isandula
Chapter Six. Zlobani
Chapter Seven. Kambula
Chapter Eight. The Second Advance
Chapter Nine. Ulundi
Chapter Ten. A Trading Expedition
Chapter Eleven. A Troop of Lions
Chapter Twelve. An Attack by Elephants
Chapter Thirteen. A Brush with the Natives
Chapter Fourteen. Trapped in a Defile
Chapter Fifteen. A Mountain-Torrent
Chapter Sixteen. A Fight with the Boers
Chapter Seventeen. A Terrible Journey
Chapter Eighteen. The Boer Insurrection
Chapter Nineteen. The Garrisons in the Transvaal
Chapter Twenty. Laing’s Neck
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The country round Castleton, in Derbyshire, is greatly admired by summer tourists, for it lies in the wildest part of that county; but in winter the wind whistles sharply over the bleak hills – where there are no trees to break its violence, – the sheep huddle under the shelter of the roughly-built stone walls, and even lovers of the picturesque would at that season prefer a more level and wooded country. The farm of Mr Humphreys was situated about a mile from Castleton. It consisted of 100 acres or so of good land in the bottom, and of five or six times as much upland grazing on the hills. Mr Humphreys owned as well as farmed his land, and so might have claimed, had he chosen, the title of gentleman-farmer; but he himself would have scoffed at such an idea. He was a hard-working, practical farmer, about over his ground from morning to night, save when the hounds met within easy distance in winter; then he would mount “Robin,” who served alike as hunter, or hack, or to drive in the neat dog-cart to Buxton market; and, although there were many handsomer horses in the field, Mr Humphreys was seldom far off when the fox was killed.
“I shall never want to, father,” he would reply. “I do not see that learning will ever be much good to me.”
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They went on for a bit.
Turning off, he began to ascend the next hill, and in two or three minutes shouted the glad news to Tom that he had found the wall; then he returned.
