"I've a friend at my side, To lift me and aid me, whatever betide; To trust to the world is to build on the sand:— I'll trust but in Heaven and my good Right Hand." MACKAY. JACK TREBY loved to say that he was an English boy, although he had never seen the dear old mother country of which his father so often talked; for he was born among the wide South African plains, where through the parching summer the sun-rays burn like fire, where the dry leaves shrivel with the heat, and the flowers can only bloom in sheltered places. Yet he was the proudest and happiest of boys when his father stroked his curly head and called him a "true-born Briton."…
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