Excerpt from Children's Book of Patriotic Stories: The Spirit of 76 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. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.