Here is a book of Patriotic Stories for children, to stand beside the
similar collections of Christmas Stories and Thanksgiving Stories,
which have already been welcomed by many parents, librarians, and
teachers. Those seeking material appropriate to Washington’s Birthday
and the Fourth of July will find here a goodly store, ready to their
hands. The brief descriptive note at the head of each story will help
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, and which younger children.
The Editors hope that a book of stirring tales like these--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 aid
in keeping aglow in the hearts of our young people the ardent spark
which inspired our forefathers--the Spirit of ’76.
_Napoleon was great, I know,
And Julius Cæsar, and all the rest,
But they didn’t belong to us, and so
I like George Washington the best._
--ANONYMOUS.