To the children of Portsmouth this book is dedicated.
Reading edition
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.