(LARGE PRINT EDITION) 1872. Forbes, a brilliant war correspondent, spent his later years in literary work. This volume contains a collection of his essays including: A Penny a Day, At the Christmas Cattle-Market, Soldiers' Wives, In a Military Prison, German War Prayers, Flogged, A Sunday Afternoon at Guy's, Butcher Jack's Story, Bummarees, A Deserter's Story, Lions and Lion-taming, Cat's-meat, Army Crimes and Punishment, The Story of the Megaera, A March on Brighton, Furs, Christmas in a Cavalry Regiment, Christmas in the Foreposts, 1870, Workhouse and Christmas Depravity, 1871, and Christmas among the Beggars. See other titles by this author available from Kessinger Publishing.