Laura Secord, the heroine of 1812
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- A Drama; and Other Poems
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1. LAURA SECORD, THE HEROINE OF 1812:2. PREFACE.3. MEMOIR OF MRS. SECORD4. LAURA SECORD:5. SCENE 1.—Queenston. A farmhouse.6. SCENE 2.—The same place and the same hour.7. SCENE 3.—Mrs. Secord's bedroom. She is walking up and down in much agitation.8. SCENE 4—Daybreak on the 23rd June, 1813.9. SCENE 5.—The Road at the foot of Queenston Heights.10. SCENE 1.—The great kitchen at St. David's Mill. Breakfast-time.11. SCENE 2.—A beautiful glade.12. SCENE 3—A thick wood through which runs a forest path, leading to a high beech ridge.13. SCENE 4.—The forest, with the sun nearly below the horizon, its rays illuminate the tops of the trees, while all below is dark and gloomy. Bats are on the wing, the night-hawk careers above the trees, fire-flies flit about, and the death-bird calls.14. SCENE 1.—Decau's house, a stone edifice of some pretensions. The parlour, with folding doors which now stand a little apart. A sentry is visible, on the other side of them. The parlour windows are barricaded within, but are set open, and a branch of a climbing rose with flowers upon it, swings in. The sun is setting, and gilds the arms that are piled in one corner of the room. A sword in its scabbard lies across the table, near which, in an arm-chair, reclines Lieutenant Fitzgibbon, a tall man of fine presence; in his right hand, which rests negligently on the back of the chair, he holds a newspaper of four pages, "The Times," from which he has been reading. Several elderly weather-beaten non-commissioned officers and privates, belonging to the 49th, 104th, and 8th regiments, together with a few militiamen and two cadets share the society of their superior officer, and all are very much at their ease both in appointments and manner, belts and stocks are unloosed, and some of the men are smoking.15. SCENE 2.—Morning twilight. A little wayside tavern at a cross-road.16. SCENE 3.—The beech ridge. Frequent firing. The Indian war-whoop. Bugles sounding the advance.17. POEMS18. FRAGMENTS.19. SCENE 1.—Scugog.20. SCENE 2.—A lady's bedroom.21. SCENE 3.—The same room. Evening.22. SCENE 1.—A bedroom in a Toronto boarding-house. KATE BLOGGS in bed.23. SCENE 1.—The same as Scene 2, Act I.24. SCENE 1.—A boarding-house dining-room richly decorated with flowers and plants. Twenty gentlemen, among whom is Mr. Tom Christopher, each accompanying a lady, one of whom is Miss Blaggs. The cloth is drawn, and dessert is on the table.25. SCENE 2.—The same.26. FABLES: ORIGINAL AND FROM THE FRENCH.27. TRANSLATIONS28. NOTES.29. APPENDICES.