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Title: A family flight around home
Year: 1884 (1880s)
Authors: Hale, Edward Everett, 1822-1909 Hale, Susan, 1833-1910, joint author
Subjects: New England -- Description and travel United States -- History
Publisher: Boston, D. Lothrop and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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MEADOW INTKKVALK. THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. 211 ©ners were immured, and tortured with great cruelty. It continuedto be used for much the same purposes down to the fourteenthof July, 1789, when the people rose in their fury and utterlydestroyed it. This is one of the acts of the French Revolution, tobe balanced against its numerous crimes. The day is celebratedin France as we celebrate the Fourth of July, because of its im-portance in the annals of liberty. We ought to have read the Declaration on the Fourth, saidBessie, and Tom, you ought to be able to repeat it. When, in the course of human events, began Tom, in anoratorical manner, then changing to his usual voice, he continued,that is as far as I know. I have it here, in a dozen books, said the professor, as helooked along the shelves. Bessie said to him in a low tone, Do not find it for a fewminutes, — not till I come back. Here it is, cried Hubert, in the end of Mr. Oilmanshistory. Just then Bessie reappeared, having ha

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