CHILDREN’S BOOK OF
PATRIOTIC STORIES
In the Same Series
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF CHRISTMAS STORIES
Edited by Asa Don Dickinson and Ada M. Skinner
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF THANKSGIVING STORIES
Edited by Asa Don Dickinson
THE SPIRIT OF ’76
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF
PATRIOTIC STORIES
The Spirit of ’76
EDITED BY
ASA DON DICKINSON
AND
HELEN WINSLOW DICKINSON
Frontispiece
Garden CityNew York
DOUBLEDAY, PAGE & COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1917, by
Doubleday, Page & Company
All rights reserved, including that of
translation into foreign languages,
including the Scandinavian
ACKNOWLEDGMENT
The Publishers desire to acknowledge the kindnessof G. P. Putnam’s Sons, the HoughtonMifflin Company, Harper & Brothers, the PerryMason Company, the Lothrop, Lee & ShepardCompany, Little, Brown & Company, George W.Jacobs & Company, Silver, Burdett & Company,and others, who have granted permission toreproduce herein selections from works bearingtheir copyright.
PREFACE
Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, tostand beside the similar collections of ChristmasStories and Thanksgiving Stories, which have alreadybeen welcomed by many parents, librarians, andteachers. Those seeking material appropriate toWashington’s Birthday and the Fourth of July willfind here a goodly store, ready to their hands. Thebrief descriptive note at the head of each story willhelp the reader to choose one well suited to his audience.And the Table of Contents, as in the previous collections,indicates which tales will best please older, andwhich younger children.
The Editors hope that a book of stirring tales likethese—not history, but stories such as children love,that yet ring true in spirit—will serve to help,though ever so little, the Cause of Liberty and will aidin keeping aglow in the hearts of our young people theardent spark which inspired our forefathers—theSpirit of ’76.
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