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!

Compare the passage in Preston's "Cambyses," iv.

He was the first that bent the knee When the STANDARD waved abroad, He was the first that charged the foe On Preston's bloody sod; And ever, in the van of fight, The foremost still he trod, Until, on bleak Culloden's heath, He gave his soul to God, Like a good old Scottish cavalier, All of the olden time!

COLONEL PRESTON'S RECOVERY XXIII.

COLONEL PRESTON'S WILL XXXI.

PRESTON'S REVENGE XXXIII.

" "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.

"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.

CHAPTER XXX COLONEL PRESTON'S WILL Mrs. Preston was a cold woman, and was far from being a devoted wife.

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.

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.

But, of course, Andy knew nothing of this, nor did he suspect anything, since neither he nor his mother had the faintest idea of being remembered in Colonel Preston's will, kind though he had been to them both in his life.

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 2: The charter is printed in Poore's Charters and Constitutions, pp. 932-942, and in Preston's Documents, pp.

[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.

Preston's letter, Sept. 28, 1774.

Preston's letter. 38.

[Footnote: See Preston's pamphlet on Mrs. Russell, pp.