I have copied every one of them to send to your father, for Aunt will not part with the originals even for him! I know all about Louisbourg, and the batteries, and the ships, and the big guns.

Oh, I think if I were a man I could become an officer at once, and command a great campaign like that one! We had such rejoicings here when the news came! it was like new life to us.

We had heard of that dreadful defeat at Ticonderoga, and it seemed as though England was never to rise from the dust of humiliation.

It was openly said that Louisbourg would never fall; that it was as impregnable as Quebec.

Oh, there was such lugubrious talk! And then came the news of the victory, and of Brigadier Wolfe's valiant and doughty deeds.