Captain Macklin

Purchase one of 1st World Library's Classic Books and help support our free internet library of downloadable eBooks. Visit us online at www.1stWorldLibrary.ORG - - It may seem presumptuous that so young a man as myself should propose to write his life and memoirs for as a rule one waits until he has accomplished something in the world or until he has reached old age before he ventures to tell of the times in which he has lived and of his part in them. But the profession to which I belong which is that of a soldier and which is the noblest profession a man can follow is a hazardous one and were I to delay until to-morrow to write down what I have seen and done these memoirs might never be written for such being the fortune of war to-morrow might not come. So I propose to tell now of the little I have accomplished in the first twenty-three years of my life and from month to month to add to these memoirs in order that should I be suddenly taken off my debit and credit pages may be found carefully written up to date and carried forward. On the other hand should I live to be an old man this record of my career will furnish me with material for a more complete autobiography and will serve as a safeguard against a failing memory.