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and will only have to send in their names. Each company
is from a hundred and forty to a hundred and fifty strong,
and has a captain, two lieutenants, and two ensigns.”

Mr. Jervoise’s news was, on his return to the inn, re-
ceived with delight by the two lads; and Sir Marmaduke
said, “I wish I could shake off twenty of my years, Jer-
voise, and join also. Well, well, I daresay I shall get on
comfortably enough. I know there are a good many I’ng-
lish and Scotch Jacobites settled in the town or neighbour-
hood, and I shall not be long before I meet someone I
know. As the matter seems settled, I should advise you
lads to go down the first thing in the morning to the
wharves, there is no saying when ships may come in;
moreover, it is Hkely enough that you may light upon
young fellows who have landed within the last few weeks,
and who have been kept so far, by their ignorance of the
language, from enlisting.”

“hat is a very good idea,” Mr. Jervoise said; “they
will be delighted to hear a friendly voice, and be only too
glad to enlist in a Scottish company. You can say that
each man will have a free outfit given him.”

Accordingly, the next morning early the two lads went
down to the wharf. Presently they saw three young fel-
lows, who were evidently Scotch by their dress and caps,
talking together; they strolled up near enough to catch
what they were saying.

“Tt is hard,” one said, “that now we are here we can
make no one understand us, and it seems to me we had
far better have stayed at home.”

“We shall find some one who speaks our language pres-
ently, Jock,” another said more cheerfully. “The old man
where we lodged last night, said in his broken tongue, that
we had but to go over to Malmoe, or some such place as
that, where there is a big camp, and walk up to an officer
and say we wish to enlist,”