Crow's Nest Farm. A true tale

Preface

. The incidents and characters in this tale are faithfully drawn from real life ; the simple heroes and heroines having been well known to the Author, or to her family, for years. Amongst the farmers and peasantry in remote country localities, where reading and writing are little cultivated, events of domestic interest are often handed down to the younger de scendants, with the minuteness and accuracy of ancient oral tradition ; which was the case in the present* instance. Some slight change in names and places has been made, but all embellishment or deviation from fact strictly avoided; so that what value the story possesses lies in its truth — of which VI

PREFACE.

Crow's Nest has a New Master X CONTENTS. CHAPTER XXIIT. PAGE The Beginning of the End 255