Dear Boys and Girls:

Because so little is told of the children who lived on our shores when forests were cleared for home-making, I have tried to picture here what they might have done in the midst of the true and thrilling happenings you will some day read of in our history.

I hope these tales will help you to love the more our Granite State.

Yours with much affection,

Edith Gilman Brewster.

CONTENTS

Stories Period
[1]Nonowit's Home1603
[2]The New World1605
[3]Visitors From England1614
[4]The Settlement1623
[5]Danger for the Colonists1628
[6][A]Strawberry Bank1631
[7]The Boys' Catch1632
[8]The Forest Garden1633
[9]The Fur Trade1634
[10]Coats, Shirts, and Kettles1638
[11]Winnicunnet1638
[12]The Crystal Hills1642
[13]The Denmark Cattle1643
[14]The Cut of the Hair1649
[15][A]Cynthia's Bear1653
[16]The Witches of 16561656
[17]The Wolves of Portsmouth1662
[18]The King's Fort1666
[19][A]Little Jane's Gentians1671
[20]The Church Law1675
[21]Peace or Warfare1675
[22]Susanna's Rescue1675
[23]To the Garrison House!1675
[24]My New Hampshire1680
[25]The Bowl of Broth1689
[26]Thomas Toogood Outwits an Indian1690
[27]The Escape1694
[28]The Defense at Oyster River1694
[29][A]The Attack at the Plains1696
[30]The Strawberry Fields of Exeter1697

[A] Courtesy of W. A. Wilde Company