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Title: Tales from "Blackwood," Volume 2

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TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD"

Contents of this Volume

_Lazaro's Legacy. By Colonel E. B. Hamley_

_A Story without a Tail. By Dr Maginn_

_Faustus and Queen Elizabeth_

_How I became a Yeoman. By Professor Aytoun_

_Devereux Hall. By Mrs Southey_

_The Metempsychosis. By Dr Robert Macnish_

_College Theatricals_

William Blackwood and Sons
Edinburgh and London

TALES FROM "BLACKWOOD."

LAZARO'S LEGACY.

A TALE OF THE SIEGE OF GIBRALTAR.

BY COLONEL E. B. HAMLEY.

[_MAGA._ DECEMBER 1851.]

CHAPTER I.

The note-book of my grandfather, Major Flinders, contains much matter
relative to the famous siege of Gibraltar, and he seems to have kept an
accurate and minute journal of such of its incidents as came under his
own observation. Indeed, I suspect the historian Drinkwater must have
had access to it, as I frequently find the same notabilia chronicled in
pretty much the same terms by both these learned Thebans. But while
Drinkwater confines himself mostly to professional matters--the state
of the fortifications, nature of the enemy's fire, casualties to the
soldiery, and the like--and seldom introduces an anecdote interesting to
the generality of readers without apologising for such levity, my
grandfather's sympathies seem to have been engrossed by the sufferings
of the inhabitants deprived of shelter, as well as of sufficient
food, and hel