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The Happy Warrior

The Happy Warrior

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THE HAPPY WARRIOR



BY

A. S. M. HUTCHINSON

AUTHOR OF "ONCE ABOARD THE LUGGER——"




WITH FRONTISPIECE BY

PAUL JULIEN MEYLAN




TORONTO
MCCLELLAND & GOODCHILD LIMITED




Copyright, 1912,
BY A. S. M. HUTCHINSON.

All rights reserved.

First Edition Printed, December, 1912
Reprinted, January, 1913 (three times)
February, 1913 (three times)
Reprinted, March, 1913



Set up and electrotyped by J. S. Cushing Co., Norwood, Mass., U.S.A.
Presswork by S. J. Parkhill & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.




Who is the happy Warrior? Who is he
That every man in arms should wish to be?
—It is the generous spirit, who,...
Come when it will, is equal to the need...
Who, with a toward or untoward lot,
Prosperous or adverse, to his wish or not—
Plays, in the many games of life, that one
Where what he most doth value must be won:
Whom neither shape of danger can dismay,
Nor thought of tender happiness betray.
                                                            —WORDSWORTH.




CONTENTS


BOOK ONE

A NICE, SHORT BOOK, ILLUSTRATING THE
ELEMENTS OF CHANCE

CHAPTER  
I.   A PAGE OF THE PEERAGE
II.   A CHANGE IN THE PEERAGE
III.   INTO THE PEERAGE
IV.   A FORETASTE OF THE PEERAGE
V.   MISREADING A PEERESS
VI.   MISCALCULATING A PEER



BOOK TWO

A BOOK OF THE SAME SIZE, ILLUSTRATING THE ELEMENT OF FOLLY

I.   LOVE TRIMS WRECKERS' LAMPS
II.   LOVE LEADS AN EXPEDITION INTO THE UNFORESEEN
III.   A LOVERS' LITANY
IV.   WHAT THE TOOO-FIRTY WINNER BROUGHT MRS. ERPS
V.   WHAT AUDREY BROUGHT LADY BURDON
VI.   ARRIVAL OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR
VII.   ENLISTMENT OF THE HAPPY WARRIOR



BOOK THREE

BOOK OF THE HAPPY, HAPPY TIME. THE ELEMENT OF YOUTH

I.   PERCIVAL HAS A PEEP AT THE 'NORMOUS
II.   FOLLOWS A FROG AND FINDS A TADPOLE
III.   LADY BURDON COMES TO "POST OFFIC"
IV.   LITTLE 'ORSES AND LITTLE STU-PIDS
V.   THE WORLD AS SHOWMAN: ALL THE JOLLY FUN
VI.   JAPHRA AND IMA AND SNOW-WHITE-AND-ROSE-RED
VII.   BURDON HOUSE LEASED: THE OLD MANOR OCCUPIED



BOOK FOUR

BOOK OF STORMS AND OF THREATENING STORM. THE ELEMENT OF LOVE

I.   PLANS AND DREAMS AND PROMISES
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