. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e surprisedto note the change. Asthe weather was raw, andhe had been in-doors agood deal during the win-ter, Lord Howe felt thecold very keenly. He went to the window andlooked at the Americans, but he would come backchilly and ill-tempered to the fire each he hitched up and went away to Halifax,where he had acquaintances. On June 28 an attack was made by the Englishon Fort Moultrie. It was built of palmetto logs,which are said to be the best thing in the world toshoot into if one wishes to recover the balls anduse them again. Palmetto lo
. Bill Nye's history of the United States. e surprisedto note the change. Asthe weather was raw, andhe had been in-doors agood deal during the win-ter, Lord Howe felt thecold very keenly. He went to the window andlooked at the Americans, but he would come backchilly and ill-tempered to the fire each he hitched up and went away to Halifax,where he had acquaintances. On June 28 an attack was made by the Englishon Fort Moultrie. It was built of palmetto logs,which are said to be the best thing in the world toshoot into if one wishes to recover the balls anduse them again. Palmetto logs accept and retainballs for many years, and are therefore good forforts. When the fleet grot close enough to the fort sothat the brave Charlestonians could see the ex-pression on the admirals face, they turned loose THE CRITICAL PERIOD. 167 with everything they had, grape, canister, solidshot, cliain-shot, bar-shot, stove-lids, muffin-irons,newspaper cuts, etc., etc., so that the decks wereswept of every living thing except the JEFFERSON DICTATING THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. General Clinton by land tried to draw the atten-tion of the rear gunners of the fort, but he was apoor draughtsman, and so retired, and both theland and naval forces quit Charleston and went toNew York, where board was not so hieh. o July 4 was deemed a good time to write aDeclaration of Independence and have it read inthe grove. HISTOR V OF THE U. STA TES. Richard Henry Lee, ofVirorinia, moved that theUnited Colonies are, and ofrio^ht ouofht to be, free and o o Independent states. JohnAdams, of Massachusetts,seconded the was passed July 2, andthe report of the committeeappointed to draw up aDeclaration of Indepen-dence was adopted July 4. The Declaration was dic-tated by Thomas Jefferson,who wrote the most melo-dious English of any Amer-© 2 o S ^ ^ ican of his time. ^ CO 4d ^ 43 cd CO » Jefferson had a vocabulary o o H ^ I § j§ next to Noah Webster, with O © ta ••
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