ong some very stern facts, a
deal of sweet and tender romance, hitherto hardly known except to those
who have learned it at their mother's knee.

But in these days many persons seem disposed to pause for a moment in
the eager race after the golden fruits of the Pilgrims' husbandry, and
to look curiously back at the spot where the seed was sown.

To such I offer this story of Myles Standish,
The-Sword-of-the-White-Men, the hero, who not for gain, not from
necessity, not even from religious zeal, but purely in the knightly
fervor of his blood, forsook home, and heritage, and glory, and
ambition, to company that helpless band of exiles, and to be the
Great-Heart of their Pilgrimage to the City that they sought.

To such students I will promise that they shall not be misled as to
facts, though these be strung upon a slender thread of romance; and I
will beg them to ground themselves well upon the solid Pilgrim Rock,
that they may the better understand the story of Lazarus LeBaron, son of
A Nameless Nobleman, to be offered them in due time, unless Time shall
be no more for the Author.

Boston, _October_, 1889. JANE G. AUSTIN.

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. The Battle of the Tubs 1
II. The Launch of the Pinnace 19
III. The Sword of Standish 27
IV. The Lilies of France 41
V. An Awful Danger 54
VI. The First Encounter 63
VII. Clarke's Island 73
VIII. Burying Hill 86
IX. Rose 94
X. A Terrible Night 104
XI. The Colonists of Cole's Hill 115
XII. The Headless Arrow 134
XIII. The Captain's Promotion 141
XIV. Second Marriages 151
XV. Samoset 164
XVI. Priscilla Molines' Letter 176
XVII. An International Treaty 184
XVIII. The Last Link Broken 197
XIX. Sowed and Reaped in One Day 205
XX.