Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 254
were nt going to letus burn any candles to-morrow night cause can-dles were so scarce. I knew we had to do some-thing to show how proud we were that they hadsigned the Declaration of Independence twoyears ago, and so I thought things over last night and worked out a way of making these rockets.They… … General Washington could be in Lancaster to-morrow night! Just before the warm sun dropped behind thetops of the walnut-grove beyond the river thework was done, and a great pile of rockets layon the grass. Then, as though moved by one 780 HISTORIC BOYHOODS [July, impulse, all the boys stripped off…
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