The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 996, January 28, 1899

The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. XX. No. 996, January 28, 1899

OUR HERO. IN THE TWILIGHT SIDE BY SIDE. ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE. HOUSEHOLD HINTS. FROCKS FOR TO-MORROW. GIRLS AS I HAVE KNOWN THEM. VARIETIES. OUR LILY GARDEN. OUR PUZZLE POEM REPORT: AN IDEAL GARDEN. ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. OUR PUZZLE POEMS. OUR SUPPLEMENT STORY COMPETITION. OUR NEXT STORY COMPETITION. The letter from Mrs. Fairbank to Colonel Baron, which Roy undertook to read aloud to Denham, was lengthy and verbose. Some extracts may be given from it, the remainder being, in old-fashioned phrase, left to the readers imagination. It may be remarked here that much had happened during the last four years in European history, since the Barons had left their own country. Notable{274} among famous events was the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, which crippled for half a century to come the naval power of France. For three years at least previous to that date, England had been kept on tenterhooks of expectation, incessantly dreading a French invasion. Napoleon had talked largely of such an invasion, and had made preparations for it on no mean scale. England also had made ready for it, had feared it, had laughed at it. And at the last, partly through Continental complications, causing Napoleon to withdraw most of the great military force which had long sat at Boulogne, waiting for a safe chance of crossing the Channel, but much more through the magnificent and crushing victory of Nelson, in the course of which he received his death-wound, England escaped it. ......Buy Now (To Read More)

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