CHILDREN’S BOOK OF
PATRIOTIC STORIES
_In the Same Series_
[Illustration]
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
[Illustration: THE SPIRIT OF ’76]
CHILDREN’S BOOK OF
PATRIOTIC STORIES
_The Spirit of ’76_
EDITED BY
ASA DON DICKINSON
AND
HELEN WINSLOW DICKINSON
[Illustration]
_Frontispiece_
GARDEN CITY NEW 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 kindness of G. P. Putnam’s
Sons, the Houghton Mifflin Company, Harper & Brothers, the Perry Mason
Company, the Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Company, Little, Brown & Company,
George W. Jacobs & Company, Silver, Burdett & Company, and others,
who have granted permission to reproduce herein selections from works
bearing their copyright.