THE QUEEN'S COLOURS,

AND OTHER

Sketches of a Soldier's Life.

THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY:
56, PATERNOSTER Row; 65, ST. PAUL'S CHURCHYARD;
AND 164, PICCADILLY.

2518-700

ANY years ago there was a war in India. It was not the terrible Mutiny, of which you have all heard and which many of you remember. No; it was long before that, and the scene of it was not the central but the upper parts of India; still it seemed so serious, and so many disasters had happened, that people began to fear that our empire in that great land was trembling in the balance.

Then Sir Charles Napier, a wise and noted warrior, was sent out from England,