THE IVORY SERIES _Each, 16mo, gilt top, 75 cents_ AMOS JUDD. By J. A. Mitchell, Editor of “Life” IA. A Love Story. By Q. [Arthur T. Quiller-Couch] THE SUICIDE CLUB. By Robert Louis Stevenson IRRALIE’S BUSHRANGER. By E. W. Hornung A MASTER SPIRIT. By Harriet Prescott Spofford MADAME DELPHINE. By George W. Cable ONE OF THE VISCONTI. By Eva Wilder Brodhead A BOOK OF MARTYRS. By Cornelia Atwood Pratt A BRIDE FROM THE BUSH. By E. W. Hornung THE MAN WHO WINS. By Robert Herrick AN INHERITANCE. By Harriet Prescott Spofford THE OLD GENTLEMAN OF THE BLACK STOCK. By Thomas Nelson Page LITERARY LOVE LETTERS AND OTHER STORIES. By Robert Herrick A ROMANCE IN TRANSIT. By Francis Lynde IN OLD NARRAGANSETT. By Alice Morse Earle. SEVEN MONTHS A PRISONER. By J. V. Hadley. _Other Volumes to be announced_ IN OLD NARRAGANSETT _ROMANCES AND REALITIES_ BY ALICE MORSE EARLE CHARLES SCRIBNER’S SONS NEW YORK, 1898 Copyright, 1898, by Charles Scribner’s Sons TROW DIRECTORY PRINTING AND BOOKBINDING COMPANY NEW YORK FOREWORD _Some of these stories of old Narragansett are familiar fireside tales to those who have lived in that picturesque land; some are but vague traditions, others summer dreams; a few are family chronicles; still others are outlined in that interesting memoir, Thomas R. Hazard’s “Recollections of the Olden Times,” or in Updike’s “Narragansett Church.” Old Narragansett was, properly, all the lands occupied by the Narragansett Indians at the coming of the English. Narragansett is now, popularly, the coast sweep of the western shore of Narragansett Bay from Wickford to Point Judith. In 1685 Narragansett was made a separate government apart from Rhode Island, and was called the Kings Province. When reunited with Rhode Island this was changed to King’s County. For many years, and by some old people to-day, it is called the South County, but its legal name is Washington County, which was given it in 1781; Washington being a more agreeable and tolerable name at that date to loyal Americans than King’s. Narragansett was owned by a comparatively small number of persons, and estates were large, one family owned a tract nine miles long and three wide. Thomas Stanton had a “lordship” four and a half miles long and two wide. Colonel Champlin owned two thousand acres, Thomas Hazard twelve thousand acres. Farms of five, six, even ten miles square existed._