WILLIAM FRAZER The Story

By Mrs. Blackford (now Lady Stoddart) (1857)

The Story

WILLIAM FRAZER, the hero of this little tale, wasbora in Tobago, an island in the West Indies. His father’s regiment was sent out thither, very soon after he. married, and Mrs. Frazer willingly agreed to accompany her husband to that part of the world, rather than endure a separation from him.

Little William was born a few months after their arrival in the island, and was for some years their only child. He was rather delicate till he attained the age of two years; but after that period he grew more robust, and at four years, was considered as a stout,healthy little fellow by all who saw him; indeed, much stronger than children in general are in that climate; for the heat is so great that very few bom of English parents can be reared beyond the age of four or five years, and they are therefore usually sent home to live with any relations their parents may have residing in England, or else to be placed at schools, under the care of proper teachers.William, however, was so healthy, that his parents thought they might venture to keep him with them a year or two longer, as they loved him so dearly they could not think of separating from him. But though both Captain and Mrs.

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