. A family flight around home. SMim BBOR HOUSE WHERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS DRAWN UP. New York. It was received everywhere with the utmost demon-strations of joy. So, boys, said Mr. Bruce as Ernest finished reading the lastsentence, stumbling a good deal over the word demonstrations,* now you see why we celebrate the Fourth of July every year. And why, said Tom, looking up from his German, all goodlittle American boys fire crackers all day long. And why, said Bessie who happened to be in the library,* cannons resound, and bells ring, all over the United States, andfireworks are se
. A family flight around home. SMim BBOR HOUSE WHERE THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE WAS DRAWN UP. New York. It was received everywhere with the utmost demon-strations of joy. So, boys, said Mr. Bruce as Ernest finished reading the lastsentence, stumbling a good deal over the word demonstrations,* now you see why we celebrate the Fourth of July every year. And why, said Tom, looking up from his German, all goodlittle American boys fire crackers all day long. And why, said Bessie who happened to be in the library,* cannons resound, and bells ring, all over the United States, andfireworks are sent ofT in the evening. 208 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. Like the destruction of the Bastile, said Augustine, with agleam of intelligence. Alice stared, and did not cease when Tom and Bessie readily-agreed, saying both together, yes, exactly. Ernest and Augustine, little absentees as they were, had neverseen a popular celebration of any sort in their own country, but ^m^ty^^^J^^ ^a^^.. tr*7^ a/m^<j j^^ tr^ rur AUTOGRAPHS OK SIONKRS OF THE DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE. they were perfectly familiar with similar demonstrations in France,where the fourteenth of July is recognized much in the samemanner. The Bastile was a prison in Paris, where for centuries state pris-
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