Now we know where the two little boys story comes from:
Her bestseller, Jackanapes, was a story about the eponymous hero and his friend Tom, who having ridden wooden horses as two little boys end up together on a Napoleonic battlefield. There, Jackanapes rides to the rescue of the wounded and dismounted Tom. Jackanapes nobly replies to Tom’s entreaties to save himself, “Leave you? To save my skin? No, Tom. Not to save my soul.” He promptly takes a fatal bullet in the left lung.
It would have to be Rolf Harris who was the only person in a century to read the works of Juliana Horatia Ewing, wouldn’t it?
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