And as, of late, they joyed in Preston's fight, Saw at sad Falkirk all their hopes near crowned, They raved, divining, through their second sight, Pale, red Culloden, where these hopes were drowned!

PRESTON'S DISCOMFITURE XVI.

COLONEL PRESTON'S RECOVERY XXIII.

COLONEL PRESTON'S WILL XXXI.

PRESTON'S INTENTIONS XXXII.

Since she had come to Crampton, leaving Andy at work for a farmer in the place where they had last lived, she had obtained what sewing she could from the families in the village, and had besides obtained a chance to help about the ironing at Colonel Preston's.

" "When do you go to Colonel Preston's, mother?

" At half-past seven, Mr. Stone rang the bell at Mrs. Preston's door, and was ushered in without delay.

" It was Mrs. Preston's turn to be surprised.

PRESTON'S DISCOMFITURE Godfrey rose to his feet, red with mortification.

"I can only regret Mrs. Preston's displeasure.

CHAPTER XXII COLONEL PRESTON'S RECOVERY

"If you don't tell me, I'll shake you!" "Colonel Preston's deaddropped dead in the store ten minutes ago.

Still, when Colonel Preston's lifeless form was brought into the house, she did experience a violent shock.

PRESTON'S REVENGE Andy Burke was passing the house of Mrs. Preston, within a month after Colonel Preston's death, when Godfrey, who had not gone back to boarding school, showed himself at the front door.

To explain what it was, I must go back to a period shortly before Colonel's Preston's death.

[Footnote A: Senator Preston's Railroad Speech, delivered at Colombia, S.C., in 1836.]

See also J.H.U. Studies, I., xi., Alexander Johnston, The Genesis of a New England State (Connecticut); III., ix.-x., Horace Davis, American Constitutions; also Preston's Documents Illustrative of American History, 1606-1863, N.Y., 1886; Stubbs, Select Charters and other Illustrations of English Constitutional History, Oxford, 1870; Gardiner's Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, Oxford, 1888.

" [Footnote 1: The compact is in Poore's Charters and Constitutions, p. 931, and in Preston's Documents Illustrative of American History, pp. 29-31.

[Footnote 1: Printed in Preston's Documents, pp.

The Resolutions are printed in Preston's Documents, pp. 283-298; Jefferson's Works, Vol.

"Preston's Book-Keeping.

This subject is so important, that I will not hesitate to add to the influence of these opinions the great sanction of Preston's authority.

" Her eyes went rapidly from her father's face to Preston's.

And on proper gymnastic exercises there is a little book so full and admirable, that it atones for the defects of all the others,"Paul Preston's Gymnastics,"nominally a child's book, but so spirited and graphic, and entering so admirably into the whole extent of the subject, that it ought to be reprinted and find ten thousand readers.