THE GIRL’S OWNPAPER
THE PRIMROSE GATHERER.
From the Painting by W. A. Menzies.
Vol. XX.—No. 1001.]
[Price One Penny.
MARCH 4, 1899.
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“OUR HERO.”
THE PRINCESS OF WALES’S DAIRY AT SANDRINGHAM.
HIS GREAT REWARD.
SELF-CULTURE FOR GIRLS.
LETTERS FROM A LAWYER.
VARIETIES.
HERB-PATIENCE.
OUR MUTUAL FRIEND THE “BIKE.”
DOUBLE ACROSTIC I.
ABOUT PEGGY SAVILLE.
THE GIRL’S OWN QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS.
ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
The Princess of Wales’s Dairy. Sandringham.
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“OUR HERO.”
A TALE OF THE FRANCO-ENGLISH WAR NINETY YEARS AGO.
By AGNES GIBERNE, Author of “Sun, Moon and Stars,” “The Girl at the Dower House,” etc.
CHAPTER XXIII.
LIFE IN A FRENCHDUNGEON.
ight longlong monthsat Bitche!
No wonderRoy Baronwas altered.He had leftVerdun acareless andlight-heartedlad; almosta child still; youngin many respectsfor his age. Eightmonths at Bitche hadsnuffed all remnants ofchildishness out of him.
Sometimes he caught himselfwondering if he reallywere the same Roy Baron,who once had lived in a happyLondon home, with never acare or a trouble; who hadwept salt tears in a Parisbedroom, because Denhamhad to leave him behind fora few days; who had carriedhimself with a gay heart through morethan three years of Verdun captivity.
The weight of the last eight mo