THE SURPRISING ADVENTURES OF SIR TOADY LION WITH THOSE OF GENERAL NAPOLEON SMITH
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AN IMPROVING HISTORY FOR OLD BOYS, YOUNG BOYS, GOOD BOYS, BAD BOYS, BIG BOYS, LITTLE BOYS, COW BOYS, AND TOM-BOYS
BY S. R. CROCKETT
author of "Sweetheart Travellers", "The Raiders", &c.
ILLUSTRATED BY GORDON BROWNE NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY
Copyright, 1897 by Frederick A. Stokes Company
Too Good Boys Not Allowed To Read This Book By Order Field Marshal Napoleon Smith
CHAP. PAGE.
I. Prissy, Hugh John, and Sir Toady Lion, 1
II. The Gospel of Dasht-Mean, 10
III. How Hugh John Became General Napoleon, 18
IV. Castle Perilous, 25
V. The Declaration of War, 30
VI. First Blood, 35
VII. The Poor Wounded Hussar, 42
VIII. The Familiar Spirit, 46
IX. Put to the Question, 52
X. A Scouting Adventure, 60
XI. Enemy's Country, 67
XII. Mobilisation, 73
XIII. The Army of Windy Standard, 83
XIV. The Battle of the Black Sheds, 89
XV. Toady Lion Plays a First Lone Hand, 95
XVI. The Smoutchy Boys, 101
XVII. Before the Inquisition, 107
XVIII. The Castle Dungeon, 114
XIX. The Drop of Water, 122
XX. The Secret Passage, 128
XXI. The Return from the Bastile, 137
XXII. Mutiny in the Camp, 147
XXIII. Cissy Carter, Boys' Girl, 154
XXIV. Charity Begins at Home—and Ends There, 162
XXV. Love's (Very) Young Dream, 174
XXVI. An Imperial Birthday, 185
XXVII. The Bantam Chickens, 192
XXVIII. The Gipsy Camp, 199
XXIX. Toady Lion's Little Ways, 206
XXX. Saint Prissy, Peacemaker, 211
XXXI. Prissy's Picnic, 220
XXXII. Plan of Campaign, 237
XXXIII. Toady Lion's Second Lone Hand, 244
XXXIV. The Crowning Mercy, 258
XXXV. Prissy's Compromise, 269
XXXVI. Hugh John's Way-Going, 280
XXXVII. The Good Conduct Prize, 287
XXXVIII. Hugh John's Blighted Heart, 294
XXXIX. "Girls are Funny Things," 308
PAGE.
"As the Highlanders had Clung to the Cavalry Stirrups at Balaclava," Frontispiece
Sir Toady Lion, Titlepage
Hugh John had a Sister, 1
The Highway lies Deserted, 10
Mr. Dick Turpin, Late of York and Tyburn, 12
He Stood on the Roadside, 18
It Could not Have Been Better Done for a Field-Marshal, 22
Castle Perilous, 25
At the End of the Stepping-Stones, 30
Janet Sheepshanks Awaited this Sorry Procession with a grim Tightening of the Lips, 32
"I Couldn't Help Getting Beaten," 35
Success Often Bred Envy, 42
Sambo, 46
A Fearful Black Countenance Nodded at Him, 52
Hugh John Took his way Down the Avenue, 60
"Wait Till the Next Time," 63
He was Obliged to Climb a Tree, 67
Hugh John Tugged Her Hair, 73
Deposited General-Field-Marshal Smith in the Horse-Pond, 76
Generals of Division, Equal in Rank, 79
The Army was Finally Mustered, 83
The Black Sheds, 89
The Battle of the Black Sheds, 93
Cautiously he Returned Through the Hedge, 95
"Oh, the Bonnie Laddie!" 98
"Surrender!" cried Nipper Donnan, 101
The Head Smoutchy, 104
"Got You at Last!" 107
"Will ye Say Now that the Castle is Your Father's?" 112
"But I Won't Cry—Even to Myself," 114
He Bent the Weight of his Body This way and That, 117
The Pining Captive, 122
The Secret Passage, 128
He Saw a Stretch of Rippled River, 134
He Floundered Through, 137
"I Create you General of the Comm'sariat," 143
"Don't you Speak Against my Father," 147
Sammy Carter Mutinous, 149
"One, Two, Three—and a Tiger," 154
"Look at Him, Madam," said Mrs. Baker, 157
Toady Lion sat Plump Down, 162
"Let me Look at Him," She Said, 165
Love's Young Dream, 174
"Hit Hard, Brave Soldier," 177
"Wasn't it Splendid?" 182
Toady Lion Preferred to Sleep in the Most Curious Positions, 185
Bantam Chickens, 192
The Gipsies' Wood, 199
She Carried a Back Load of Tinware, 202
The Oldest Implements Invented for the Purpose, 206
She Went on Her Way, 211
"Oh, Please Don't, Sir!" 218
Welcomed by the Enemy, 220
The Return of the Two Swift Footmen, 223
Hydraulic Pressure, 225
The Plan of Campaign, 237
Trotting Steadily Through the Town, 244
The Bounding Brothers, 258
The Living Chain, 263
Sixpence for Admission, 269
"Then," said Prissy, "I think it can be Managed," 274
Toady Lion Stood Looking on, 280
A Slim Bundle of Limp Woe, 284
The Good Conduct Prize, 287
"Smell That," 292
A Blighted Being, 294
He Sprang Over the Stile, 308
"It Looks Like Half of a Sixpence which Somebody has Stepped upon. How Quaint!" 312
As if Her Heart were Light Within Her, 314
Sir Toady Lion.