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Title: A comic history of the United States
Year: 1880 (1880s)
Authors: Hopkins, Livingston, 1846-1927
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Publisher: New York American book exchange
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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GE FOB CONGRESS. 113 but there is not tLe slightest doubt it ismeant to bear an historical, not a commer-cial significance. On page 112 will be found a reliable ver-sion of the incident briefly sketched, whichour artist is willing to work up in oil forthe Government if Congress will make asuitable appropriation and agree to furnisha barrel of oil and a few acres of canvas. Sealed proposals addressed to care of thepublishers of this work will be promptlyconsidered. CHAPTER XXL MORE REVOLUTIONARY THAN EVER—LIVELY TIMES AtA WATERING-PLACE—THE STARS AND STRIPES IN-VENTED. On the 17tli of October, 1777, GeneralWashington surrounded and captured theBritish army under Burgoyne at Saratoga,where they had been spending the Summer,and where it strikes us they had remainedrather late in the season. The British were entirely out of provi-sions, and had been living exclusively oncongress water for some weeks past. Mr.Burgoyne had written home to the Crownthat, if the war was to be successfully
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116 116 BUR007NE IN A FIX. prosecuted in America, the army must besupplied witk something more filling forthe price than mineral water. But hemust have forgotten to mail the letter,for no commissary stores arrived, and thesoldiers continued to subsist upon theiraqueous diet. They were consequentlygreatly reduced and fell an easy prey tothe Americans. That year Congress adopted the Starsand Stripes as the flag of the United States,*which (with the addition of other starsfrom time to time) has been handed downto grateful posterity, and to-day proudlyreveals to the youth of a free Republic thewhereabouts of the circus tent. * Note.—This supplied a want long- felt, as the army hadhitherto rallied round Mr. Washingtons red pocket handker-chief tied to a broom handle. CHAPTER XXII. IMPRUDENT CONDUCT OP BENEDICT ARNOLD—A REAL ES*TATE SPECULATION—$50,000 THE PRICE OF LIBERTS(TERMS cash)—MAJOR ANDR^ IS SERIOUSLY COM-PROMISED—SUSPENSE—EVIL COMMUNICATION—A TALE-BEARING YELLOW DOG.

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