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Title: Young Lion of the Woods
A Story of Early Colonial Days

Author: Thomas Barlow Smith

Release Date: July 2, 2005 [EBook #16181]

Language: English

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YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS;

OR

A Story of Early Colonial Days.

BY

THOMAS B. SMITH.

Here in Canadian hearth, and home, and name;--
This name which yet shall grow
Till all the nations know
Us for a patriot people, heart and hand
Loyal to our native earth, our own Canadian land!
--Chas. G.D. Roberts.

HALIFAX, N.S.:
NOVA SCOTIA PRINTING COMPANY.
1889.

_Entered according to Act of the Parliament of Canada, in the year 1889,
by_ THOMAS B. SMITH, _at the Department of Agriculture_.

Dedication.

TO MY WIFE
I DEDICATE THIS, MY FIRST WORK,
WITH MY LOVE.

PREFACE.

The only merit that the writer claims for the following pages is, that
they contain a record of facts, setting forth the sacred sentiments of
duty, religious trust, and the spirit of liberty, amid sufferings-and
hardships of persons, whose loyalty was put to the severest test.

It has been beautifully said, "that he who sets a colony on foot designs
a great work." "He designs all the good, and all the glory, of which, in
the series of ages, it might be the means; and he shall be judged more
by the lofty, ultimate aim and result, than by the actual instant
motive. You may well admire, therefore, the solemn and adorned
plausibilities of the colonizing of Rome from Troy, in the Eneid! Though
the leader had been burned out of house and home, and could not choose
but go. You may find in the flight of the female founder of the gloomy
greatness of Carthage a certain epic interest; yet was she running from
the madness of her husband to save her life. Emigration from our stocked
communities of undeified men and women, emigration for conq