Excerpt from Romances of Colonial Days It has been my wish by blending gold and alloy, fact and fancy, to fashion rings of romance that shall make real to us, near and dear to us, the heroes and heroines of colonial romance, the atmos phere they breathed, the time in which they lived. That time, that atmosphere, those heroes and hero ines are not so far removed but that we should feel their kinship; and it is with the hope that this kinship may be realized that I offer these Ro mances of Colonial Days. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition.

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