Chapter I: Front Matter

Transcriber's note:

Inconsistencies in hyphenation have been maintained. Archaic
usage of words such as "salvage" for "savage" and "randevous"
for "rendezvous" have been maintained. Several misprints and
punctuation errors have been corrected. A list of corrections
can be found at the end of the text.

STANDISH OF STANDISH

A Story of the Pilgrims

by

Jane G. Austin

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By Jane G. Austin

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STANDISH OF STANDISH

A Story of the Pilgrims

by

JANE G. AUSTIN

Author of "A Nameless Nobleman," "The Desmond Hundred," "Mrs. Beauchamp Brown," "Nantucket Scraps," "Moon Folk," Etc., Etc.

Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company The Riverside Press, Cambridge 1892

Copyright, 1889, by Jane G. Austin. All rights reserved

Eleventh Edition.

The Riverside Press, Cambridge, Mass., U. S. A. Electrotyped and Printed by H. O. Houghton & Co.

Dedication.

TO THE MEMORY OF MY DEAR BROTHER,

JOHN A. GOODWIN,

WHO MORE THAN ANY MAN HAS CONSERVED FOR OUR DELIGHT THE STORY OF THOSE PILGRIM FATHERS "WITHOUT WHOSE LIVES OURS HAD NOT BEEN."

A PREFATORY NOTE.

The history of the Old Colony includes, among 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. Funeral-baked Meats and Marriage Feasts 213
XXI. An Affair of Honor 224
XXII. The Captain's Pipe 236
XXIII. "Speak for Yourself, John!" 243
XXIV. The Mysterious Grave 253
XXV. A Little Discipline 266
XXVI. The First Thanksgiving Day of New England 276
XXVII. A Love Philtre 288
XXVIII. Philip De La Noye 296
XXIX. Keeping Christmas 311
XXX. A Soldier's Instinct 319
XXXI. A Pot of Broth 343
XXXII. The Sunset Gun 351
XXXIII. Pecksuot's Knife 356
XXXIV. The Wolf at the Door 370
XXXV. The Brides' Ship 376
XXXVI. Marriage Bells 385
XXXVII. "And to be Wroth with one we Love!" 395
XXXVIII. Barbara 406
XXXIX. A Military Wedding 416
XL. "Parting is such Sweet Sorrow!" 420

STANDISH OF STANDISH.