Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. 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.
