"Mrs. Edmunds and Dr. Eckenrode have the gift of breathing life into those they treat and I particularly like their force of style." ALLAN NEVINS, Noted Historian. "Excellent capitalist lore": Review in the _World Telegram_. Of Mrs. Edmunds, _Legends of the North Carolina Coast_, Garrett and Massie. Richmond, Va., 1941: "Mrs. Edmunds's style is good." DUBOSE HEYWARD, Author of _Porgy_. "Charming book ... written with poetic fervor, brief and evocative." _New York Herald-Tribune Book Review._ "Written with craftsmanship and genuine artistry." _The Atlanta Journal._ "Written with lyrical beauty and a fine sense of selection." _Greensboro News._ "Interesting new book...." DOUGLAS FREEMAN, Editor and Author. Of Mrs. Edmunds, _Tales of the Virginia Coast_, Dietz Press. Richmond, Va., 1950: "A fine and useful piece of writing." LAURA KREY, Author of: _And Tell of Time_. Transcriber's Notes: Passages in italics are indicated by _italics_. Inconsistencies in spelling and hyphenation have been retained from the original. Obvious typographical errors in the original have been corrected as follows: Page 15: "sportmens'" changed to "sportsmen's" Page 18: "cooly" changed to "coolly" Page 37: "fastidously" changed to "fastidiously" Page 68: "(Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 18713" changed to "(Boston: J. R. Osgood & Company, 1871)" Page 70: "Refgrence" changed to "Reference" Punctuation has been corrected without note. Footnote anchors exist on page 64, but no footnotes exist in the original. Extensive research did not uncover any evidence that the U.S. copyright on this publication was renewed.