MARGARET GODFREY'S FAREWELL. 120

CHAPTER XII.
MARRIAGE OF LITTLE MAG.
--SOCIETY AT HALIFAX. 133

A CONCLUDING CHAPTER.
THEN, NOW, AND TO BE. 141




INTRODUCTORY CHAPTER


The records of the lives and actions of those who have preceded us in
the procession of the generations, are full of instruction and interest.
In many instances they hold up to our emulation great models of
patriotism, patience, endurance, activity and pluck. It is to be
regretted that many documents of past ages have been destroyed through
lack of knowledge of their real value, and of the light they would have
thrown upon the early history of the country. Some few, regarded merely
as the relics of departed ancestors, have been so secretly kept and
treasured, that dust, must and rust have all but completely defaced
them.

If our ancestors had been wise in preserving the papers of their
fathers, long ago there might have been collected from such documents,
and displayed, many particulars of positive information concerning the
very early history of the English in Acadia.