Young Lion of the Woods by Thomas Barlow Smith


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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 conquest, 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.




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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

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