Boys and Girls of Colonial Days
Carolyn Sherwin Bailey
“THE YOUNGEST SOLDIER OF THE REVOLUTION”
BOYS AND GIRLS OF COLONIAL DAYS
BY
CAROLYN SHERWIN BAILEY
Author of
“What To Do for Uncle Sam,” “Boys and Girls
Of Pioneer Days” and other stories
Illustrated By
ULDENE SHRIVER
1925
A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
CHICAGO
COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY A. FLANAGAN COMPANY
PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
CONTENTS
- The Pink Tulip
- Big Hawk’s Decoration
- The Soap Making of Remember Biddle
- The Beacon Tree
- The Jack-O’-Lantern Witch
- The Iron Stove
- A Boston Tea Party
- The Deacon’s Grasshopper
- Patience Arnold’s Sampler
- The Star Lady
- The Flag of Their Regiment
- The Boy Who Had Never Seen An Indian
- Dick, the Youngest Soldier
- Betsy’s Guest
ILLUSTRATIONS
- “The Youngest Soldier of the Revolution”
- Amsterdam
- “The Kettle Bubbled and Sang a Cheerful Welcome to Love”
- Jan and his Dog Cart
- “The Log Cabin was but a Rough Home”
- “‘I Tied Master Biddle’s Queue to his Chair’”
- “He Pointed Toward his Tribe’s Camping Place”
- “‘Shall I be Alone for Thanksgiving Day, Mother, Dear?’”
- “Remember Brought Pails of Water”
- “The Indian, Helping himself to a Huge Handful of the Soap, Washed his Hands Solemnly”
- “Hannah Dipped the Wicks for a Second in the Melted Tallow”
- The Town Crier
- “The Little White Boy ... Had Printed Strange Characters”
- “He Beat the Heavy Oak Panels with his Half-frozen, Brown Little Hands”
- “‘Do You Know who the Witch Is, Desire?’ He asked”
- “Granny Hewitt Loved the Boys and Girls”
- “The Jack-O’-Lantern Witch”
- “They Took their Homeward Way through the Snow”
- The First Stove