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Soldiering and scribbling : a series of sketches / by Archibald Forbes. – Copiright edition. – Leipzig : Bernhard Tauchnitz, 1872. – 286 p. – (Collection of British authors. Tauchnitz edition ; vol. 1287).
PREFACE.
CONTENTS.
SOLDIERING AND SCRIBBLING.
AT THE CHRISTMAS CATTLE MARKET.
SOLDIERS’ WIVES.
IN A MILITARY PRISON.
GERMAN WAR-PRAYERS.
FLOGGED.
A SUNDAY AFTERNOON AT GUY’S.
BUTCHER JACK’S STORY.
BUMMAREES.
A DESERTER’S STORY.
LIONS AND LION-TAMING.
CATS’-MEAT!
ARMY CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS.
THE STORY OF THE MEGÆRA.
A MARCH ON BRIGHTON.
FURS.
CHRISTMAS IN A CAVALRY REGIMENT.
CHRISTMAS IN THE FOREPOSTS, 1870.
WORKHOUSE CHRISTMAS DEPRAVITY, 1871.
CHRISTMAS-EVE AMONG THE BEGGARS.