United States or Burkina Faso ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
There's a thousand dollars, I guess. An' you can have it all every bit. Daddy will send it to you if I ask him. An' then you won't care 'bout the Lib'ty Bonds!" Sunny Boy was surprised at the way his offer was received. He had thought Grandpa would be pleased and his mother, too.
Maybe you've seen the Lib'ty Bonds somewhere an' you'd tell me just where to look." The beetle winked his beady eyes rapidly, but of course he didn't say a word. Presently a striped chipmunk appeared on a stump opposite the one where Sunny sat, and he, too, stared at Sunny intently. "I'm going! I'm going right away!" Sunny assured the chipmunk hastily. "Daddy says you wood folks like to be alone.
When you grow up, try to be more careful than your grandfather." Sunny Boy slipped a warm little hand into Grandpa's. "I made a kite with papers," he confessed bravely. "Not Lib'ty Bonds, Grandpa, just papers on top of your desk. I was 'musing myself, and I had to have a kite." "I see," said Grandpa slowly, and not a bit crossly. "What color paper, dear? White?"
Old Parson Ranson was responsible for the spread of this last rumor. He had fumbled badly in his effort to hold Peter's secret. Not once, but many times, always guarded by a pledge of secrecy, had he revealed the approaching wedding. When pressed for a date, the old negro said he was "not at lib'ty to tell."
At this point they should have approached him with check-books and fountain pens in hand. Realizing that they must have missed a cue Anthony, with the instincts of an actor, went back and repeated his finale. "Now see here! You taken up my time. You followed prop'sition. You agreed 'th reasonin'? Now, all I want from you is, how many lib'ty bon's?" "See here!" broke in a new voice.
What, you say I furgot to put it in my pack! Well, then bring me my copy o' the Declaration o' Independence. I always like them words in it, 'Give me lib'ty or give me death! 'Sic semper tyrannis!" "'Give me liberty or give me death' is not in the Declaration of Independence, Giant. Those words were used by Patrick Henry in an address."
"Grandpa," they heard him scream a moment later. "Hurry! Come quick! Here's my kite! The Lib'ty Bonds kite!" Sure enough, there it was, just as it had caught in the tree the missing kite. And still pasted to the strips of wood were Grandpa's two five-hundred-dollar Liberty Bonds! "No wonder we couldn't find 'em!" cried Sunny Boy, dancing with excitement. "I knew I saw it fall in a tree!
"Thar we wuz; all a stannin in line," pursued Abner, gazing right through the ceiling, as if he could see just the other side of it the scene which he so vividly recalled, "an Parson West a prayin, an the wimmin a whimperin, an we nigh ontew it; fer we wuz green, an the mothers' milk warn't aouter us. But I bet we tho't we wuz big pertaters, agoin to fight fer lib'ty.
Wall, we licked the redcoats, and we got lib'ty, I s'pose; lib'ty ter starve, that is ef we don' happin to git sent tew jail fus," and Abner's voice fell, and his chin dropped on his breast, in a sudden reaction of dejection at the thought of the bitter disappointment of all the hopes which that day had made their hearts so strong, even in the hour of parting.
Word Of The Day