Young blood must have its course, lad,"

And every dog his day."

 The Water Babies. 

The Water Babies.

 

 CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited LONDON, PARIS & MELBOURNE 1898 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED 

CASSELL and COMPANY, Limited

 CONTENTS. 

 Young Blood. 

 

 CHAPTER I. THE OLD HOME. 

THE OLD HOME.

 Harry Ringrose came of age on the happiest morning of his life. He was on dry land at last, and flying north at fifty miles an hour instead of at some insignificant and yet precarious number of knots. He would be at home to eat his birthday breakfast after all; and half the night he sat awake in a long ecstasy of grateful retrospect and delicious anticipation, as one by one the familiar stations were hailed and left behind, each an older friend than the last, and each a deadlier enemy to sleep. Worn out by excitement, however, he lay down for a minute between Crewe and Warrington, and knew no more until the guard came to him at the little junction across the Westmoreland border. Harry started up, the early sun in his sleepy eyes, and for an instant the first-class smoking-compartment was his state-room aboard the ship Sobraon, and the guard one of his good friends the officers. Then with a rush of exquisite joy the glorious truth came home to him, and he was up and out that instant—the happiest and the luckiest young rascal in the land. 

 It was the 19th of May, and a morning worthy the month and the occasion. The sun had risen in a flawless sky, and the dear old English birds were singing on 

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