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Title: Camps and firesides of the revolution
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Hart, Albert Bushnell, 1854-1943 Hill, Mabel, b. 1864
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Publisher: New York : Macmillan
Contributing Library: Information and Library Science Library, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Digitizing Sponsor: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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ial way,For to augment our forces Heputsinan In North America. ungrammat- ical for to. . make out his A health to our brave footmen, ijne. Who handle sword and gun,To Greene and Gates and Putnam And conquering Washington ;Their names be wrote in letters Wrote, Which never will decay, then often ii- used for While sun and moon do glitter written. On North America. 80 Preparing for Revolution (No. 54 Success unto our allies In Holland, France and Spain,Who man their ships and galleys, Our freedom to maintain ;May they subdue the rangers Of proud Britannia,And drive them from their anchors In North America. Success unto the Congress Of these United States,Who glory in the conquests Of Washington and Gates;To all, both land and seamen, Who glory in the dayWhen we shall all be free In North America. Success to legislation, That rules with gentle hand,To trade and navigation By water and by land.May all with one opinion Our wholesome laws obey,Throughout this vast dominion Of North America.
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OLDTIME CHILDREN. PART VI REVOLUTIONARY FIRESIDES 55. A Philadelphia Bovs Sports By Alexander Graydon (about 1765) I never could boast my winning at marbles or Graydon wascheckers ; and as I chiefly played them for pastime, a hvely boyI never attained to that degree ot perfection in them, gallant offi-which the keener stimulus of profit is calculated to cer in Wash-produce, and which alone perhaps can lead to the ar^y_ whenfame of an expert. he was made When in possession of any of these implements that ^^Brftlsi^were reckoned handsome or good, I never felt the in-clination I have observed in those of better tradingparts, of turning them into pence: with me theywere hobby horses, not articles of commerce; andthough I had no dislike to mono), it never impressedme as a primary good, a circumstance more essentialthan may be imagined, to what is called success inlife. I do not speak of this as a virtue; and if it wereone, I have certainly little reason to rejoice in it. Itis not one of th

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