A Little Maid of
Ticonderoga

BY

Alice Turner Curtis

AUTHOR OF

“A Little Maid of Province Town”
“A Little Maid of Massachusetts Colony”
“A Little Maid of Narragansett Bay”
“A Little Maid of Bunker Hill”
“A Little Maid of Old Connecticut”
“A Little Maid of Old Philadelphia”
“A Little Maid of Old Maine”
“A Little Maid of Old New York”
“A Little Maid of Virginia”

Illustrated by Wuanita Smith

THE PENN PUBLISHING
COMPANY PHILADELPHIA

1929

COPYRIGHT
1917 BY
THE PENN
PUBLISHING
COMPANY

A Little Maid of Ticonderoga

“MY NAME IS ETHAN ALLEN”

Introduction

This is the story of a little girl whose home was among the GreenMountains of Vermont, then known as “The Wilderness,” at the beginningof the American Revolution; and at the time when Ethan Allen and hisbrave soldiers were on guard to defend their rights. Ethan Allen wasthe friend of Faith, the heroine of the story, whose earnest wish tobe of help is fulfilled. She journeys from her Wilderness home acrossLake Champlain to Ticonderoga, and spends a winter with her aunt andcousin near Fort Ticonderoga. Here she learns a secret about the fortthat is of importance later to Ethan Allen’s “Green Mountain Boys.”

There are two very interesting bears in this story. Like the earliervolumes of this series, “A Little Maid of Province Town,” “A LittleMaid of Massachusetts Colony,” “A Little Maid of Narragansett Bay,”and “A Little Maid of Bunker Hill”—the present volume introduces theheroes of American history and tells of famous deeds and places ofwhich all American children should know.

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