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WAITING FOR HELP.

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A Chapter

of

Adventures

BY

G. A. HENTY

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BIOGRAPHICAL NOTE

George Alfred Henty was born near Cambridge in 1832,and educated at Westminster School and Gonville andCaius College, Cambridge. He volunteered for servicein the Crimean War, and after some varied experiencesadopted a journalistic career. He served as war correspondentof the Standard during the Austro-Italian campaignof 1866, and was afterwards a correspondent in theAbyssinian War, the Franco-German War, the AshantiWar, &c. His first book for boys was published in 1868,and was followed by a long and very successful series,including The Young Franc-Tireurs (1872), In Times ofPeril (1881), Under Drake's Flag (1883), With Clive inIndia (1884), The Lion of the North (1886), Orange andGreen (1888), The Lion of St. Mark (1889), By Pike andDyke (1890), By Right of Conquest (1891), With Mooreat Corunna (1898), With Kitchener in the Soudan (1903),and With the Allies to Pekin (1904). He died in 1902.

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