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Title: Beneath the Banner
Author: F. J. Cross
Release Date: November 9, 2003 [EBook #10024]
Language: English
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BENEATH THE BANNER
BEING NARRATIVES OF NOBLE LIVES AND BRAVE DEEDS
BY
F.J. CROSS

_ILLUSTRATED_

"I have done my best for the honour of our country."--GORDON
SECOND EDITION
1895

_BY THE SAME AUTHOR_.
GOOD MORNING! GOOD NIGHT!
TRUE STORIES PURE AND BRIGHT.
In this work will be found a Series of upwards of sixty Chats with

Children, suitable for morning and evening reading. The book abounds
with anecdotes, and contains numerous illustrations.
_Ready about May, 1895_.

CONTENTS.
_Only a Nurse Girl_,--ALICE AYRES
_A Slave Trade Warrior_,--SIR SAMUEL BAKER
_Two Working Men Heroes_,--CASE AND CHEW
_The Commander of the Thin Red Line_,--SIR COLIN CAMPBELL
_A Sailor Bold and True_,--LORD COCHRANE
_A Rough Diamond that was Polished_,--JOHN CASSELL
"_A Brave, Fearless Sort of Lass_,"--GRACE DARLING
_A Friend of Lepers_,--FATHER DAMIEN
_A Great Arctic Explorer_,--SIR JOHN FRANKLIN
_A Saviour of Six_,--FIREMAN FORD
_A Blind Helper of the Blind_,--ELIZABETH GILBERT
_A Great Traveller in the Air_,--JAMES GLAISHER
_The Soldier with the Magic Wand_,--GENERAL GORDON
"_Valiant and True_,"--SIR RICHARD GRENVILLE
_One who Left All_,--BISHOP HANNINGTON
_A Man who Conquered Disappointments_,--SIR HENRY HAVELOCK
_A Friend of Prisoners_,--JOHN HOWARD
_A Hero of the Victoria Cross_,--KAVANAGH
_The Man who Braved the Flood_,--CAPTAIN LENDY
_A Temperance Leader_,--JOSEPH LIVESEY
_A Great Missionary Explorer_,--DAVID LIVINGSTONE
_From Farm Lad to Merchant Prince_,--GEORGE MOORE
_A Man who Asked and Received_,--GEORGE M LLER

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_A Labourer in the Vineyard_,--ROBERT MOFFAT
"_The Lady with the Lamp_,"--FLORENCE NIGHTINGALE

_For England, Home, and Duty_,--THE DEATH OF NELSON
_A Woman who Succeeded by Failure_,--HARRIET NEWELL
_A Martyr of the South Seas_,--BISHOP PATTESON
"_K.G. and Coster_,"--LORD SHAFTESBURY
_A Statesman who had no Enemies_,--W.H. SMITH
_Greater than an Archbishop_,--THE REV.C. SIMEON
_A Soldier Missionary_,--HEDLEY VICARS
_A Lass that Loved the Sailors_,--AGNES WESTON
_A Great Commander on a Famous Battlefield_ THE DUKE OF WELLINGTON
_A Prince of Preachers_,--JOHN WESLEY
_Some Children of the Kingdom_
_The Victor, the Story of an Unknown Man_
_A Boy Hero_,--JOHN CLINTON
_Postscript_

BENEATH THE BANNER.
_STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN "UNDER FIRE_".
ONLY A NURSE GIRL!
THE STORY OF ALICE AYRES.
On the night of Thursday, 25th April, 1886, the cry rang through Union
Street, Borough, that the shop of Chandler, the oilman, was in flames.

So rapid was the progress of the fire that, by the time the escapes
reached the house, tongues of flame were shooting out from the
windows, and it was impossible to place the ladders in position. The
gunpowder had exploded with great violence, and casks of oil were
burning with an indescribable fury.

As the people rushed together to the exciting scene they were
horrified to find at one of the upper windows a girl, clad only in her
night-dress, bearing in her arms a child, and crying for help.

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