IN COLONIAL DAYS [Illustration: “Several Personages descending towards the Door” ] [Illustration] _In Colonial Days_ _By_ _NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE_ _L. C. PAGE & COMPANY_ _Boston_ _PUBLISHERS_ [Illustration: Copyright, 1896, by JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY Copyright, 1906, by L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Incorporated)] _Copyright, 1896, by_ JOSEPH KNIGHT COMPANY _Copyright, 1906, by_ L. C. PAGE & COMPANY (Incorporated) Third Impression, March, 1911 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [Illustration: List of Illustrations by Frank T. Merrill.] ILLUSTRATIONS. PAGE “Several Personages descending towards the Door” (_color plate_) _Frontispiece_ COPYRIGHT iv LADY READING viii HOWE’S MASQUERADE (_Half-title_) ix YE OLD PROVINCE HOUSE x INITIAL 1 THE INDIAN 2 “THE STORY OF EACH BLUE TILE” 3 “GAGE MAY HAVE BEHELD HIS DISASTROUS VICTORY” 5 THE ELDERLY GENTLEMAN 6 THE BALCONY 7 “ONE OF THESE WORTHIES—A TALL, LANK FIGURE” 10 COLONEL JOLIFFE AND GRANDDAUGHTER 12 “PLEASE YOUR HONOR, THE FAULT IS NONE OF MINE” 15 “A STOUT MAN, DRESSED IN RICH AND COURTLY ATTIRE” 18 “THE SHAPE OF GAGE, AS TRUE AS IN A LOOKING-GLASS” 22 “A TALL MAN, BOOTED AND WRAPPED IN A MILITARY CLOAK” 23 “HE RECOILED SEVERAL STEPS FROM THE FIGURE” (_color plate_) _facing_ 24 “A STAGE DRIVER SAT AT ONE OF THE WINDOWS READING A PENNY PAPER” 27 EDWARD RANDOLPH’S PORTRAIT (_Half-title_) 29 YE YOUNG CAPTAINE OF YE CASTLE TELLS YE STORY OF YE PICTURE 35 “SOME OF THESE FABLES ARE REALLY AWFUL” (_color plate_) _facing_ 38