uest, for
gold, for very restlessness of spirit, if they grow toward an imperial
issue, have all thus a prescriptive and recognized ingredient of
heroism. But when the immediate motive is as grand as the ultimate hope
was lofty, and the ultimate success splendid, then, to use an expression
of Bacon's," "the music is fuller."

In the hope that the privations and heroic conduct of those who are the
subjects of the story, in the following chapters, may prove as
interesting to the public as they did to the writer, when he first
learned the history of such heroism, the writer submits them to the
reader.

_JANUARY_, 1889.

CONTENTS Page

YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS;
A Story of Early Colonial Days. i

PREFACE. 1

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER 3

CHAPTER I.
FIRST EXPERIENCE OF COLONIAL LIFE, 1769-70. 10

CHAPTER II.
TRADING,--TROUBLE,--RETREAT. 25

CHAPTER III.
ARRIVES OFF FORT FREDERICK--PAUL GUIDON. 36

CHAPTER IV.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE AT SEA. 52

CHAPTER V.
CAPT. GODFREY AND LORD WM. CAMPBELL.
--YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS. 67

CHAPTER VI.
IN ENGLAND.--THE CAPTAIN AND THE LORDS. 76

CHAPTER VII.
ARRIVAL AND RETREAT. 80

CHAPTER VIII.
REBEL PLANS--PRAYING THE LORDS. 95

CHAPTER IX.
PAUL GUIDON. 100

CHAPTER X.
MARGARET GODFREY ARRIVES IN NOVA SCOTIA.
--DEATH OF THE YOUNG LION OF THE WOODS. 104

CHAPTER XI.
MARGARET GODFREY'S FAREWELL. 120

CHAPTER XII.
MARRIAGE OF LITTLE MAG.
--SOCIETY AT HALIFAX. 133

A CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
THEN, NOW, AND TO BE. 141

INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER

The records of the lives and actions of those who have preceded us in
the procession of the generations, are full of instruction and interest.
In many instances they hold up to our emulation great models of
patriotism, patience, endurance, activity and pluck. It is to be
regretted that many documents of past ages have been destroyed through
lack of knowledge of their real value, and of the light they would have
thrown upon the early history of