LITMIR.BIZ

      Published by Good Press, 2019

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       BENEATH THE BANNER.

       ONLY A NURSE GIRL!

       A SLAVE TRADE WARRIOR.

       TWO WORKING MEN HEROES.

       THE COMMANDER OF THE "THIN RED LINE".

       A SAILOR BOLD AND TRUE.

       A ROUGH DIAMOND THAT WAS POLISHED.

       "A BRAVE, FEARLESS SORT OF LASS."

       A FRIEND OF LEPERS.

       A GREAT ARCTIC EXPLORER.

       A SAVIOUR OF SIX

       A BLIND HELPER OF THE BLIND.

       A GREAT TRAVELLER IN THE AIR.

       THE SOLDIER WITH THE MAGIC WAND.

       "VALIANT AND TRUE."

       ONE WHO LEFT ALL.

       A MAN WHO CONQUERED DISAPPOINTMENTS.

       A FRIEND OF PRISONERS.

       A HERO OF THE VICTORIA CROSS.

       THE MAN WHO BRAVED THE FLOOD.

       A TEMPERANCE LEADER.

       A GREAT MISSIONARY EXPLORER.

       FROM FARM LAD TO MERCHANT PRINCE.

       A MAN WHO ASKED AND RECEIVED.

       A LABOURER IN THE VINEYARD.

       "THE LADY WITH THE LAMP."

       FOR ENGLAND, HOME, AND DUTY.

       A WOMAN WHO SUCCEEDED BY FAILURE.

       A MARTYR OF THE SOUTH SEAS.

       "K.G. AND COSTER."

       A STATESMAN WHO HAD NO ENEMIES.

       "GREATER THAN AN ARCHBISHOP."

       A SOLDIER MISSIONARY.

       THE LASS THAT LOVED THE SAILORS.

       A GREAT COMMANDER ON A FAMOUS BATTLEFIELD

       A PRINCE OF PREACHERS.

       SOME CHILDREN OF THE KINGDOM.

       A BOY HERO.

       POSTSCRIPT.

BENEATH THE BANNER.

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      STORIES OF MEN AND WOMEN WHO HAVE BEEN STEADY WHEN "UNDER FIRE".

      ONLY A NURSE GIRL!

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      THE STORY OF ALICE AYRES.

      On the night of Thursday, 25th April, 1886, the cry rang through Union

       Street, Borough, that the shop of Chandler, the oilman, was in flames.

      So rapid was the progress of the fire that, by the time the escapes reached the house, tongues of flame were shooting out from the windows, and it was impossible to place the ladders in position. The gunpowder had exploded with great violence, and casks of oil were burning with an indescribable fury.

      As the people rushed together to the exciting scene they were horrified to find at one of the upper windows a girl, clad only in her night-dress, bearing in her arms a child, and crying for help.

      It was Alice Ayres, who, finding there was no way of escape by the staircase, was seeking for some means of preserving the lives of the children in her charge. The frantic crowd gathered below shouted for her to save herself; but that was not her first aim. Darting back into the blinding smoke, she fetched a feather-bed and forced it through the window. This the crowd held whilst she carefully threw down to them one of the children, which alighted safe on the bed.

      Again the people in the street called on her to save her own life; but her only answer was to go back

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