Crossword-Solution: SEACOLE 7 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 9

DEDICATED, BY PERMISSION, TO MAJOR-GENERAL LORD ROKEBY, K.C.B., BY HIS LORDSHIP'S HUMBLE AND MOST GRATEFUL SERVANT, MARY SEACOLE.

Seacole to the British public, or to recommend a book which must, from the circumstances in which the subject of it was placed, be unique in literature.

There were few officers of the 97th to whom Mother Seacole was not well known, before she joined them in front of Sebastopol; and among the best known was good-hearted, loveable, noble H---- V----, whose death shocked me so terribly, and with whose useful heroic life the English public have become so familiar.

Casey, how could you shoot the poor lad, and now call him bad names, as though he'd injured you? He is very ill indeed--may die; so I advise you to think seriously of your position." "But, Madame Seacole," (this in a very altered tone), "_you'll_ surely help me? _you'll_ surely tell the alcalde that the wound's a slight one? He's a friend of yours, and will let me out of this hole.

Here is one of them--"hurt in the trenches," says the Sergeant, with shaven bandaged head, and bright, restless, Irish eyes, who hallooes out, "Mother Seacole! Mother Seacole!" in such an excited tone of voice; and when he has shaken hands a score of times, falls back upon his pillow very wearily.