David H. Montgomery

“ While in the valley they met a band of Indians, who stopped and danced a war-dance for them. The music was not remarkable,—for most of it was made by drumming on a deerskin stretched across the top of an old iron pot,—but the dancing could not be beat. The savages leaped into the air, swung their hatchets, gashed the trees, and yelled till the woods rang.
When Washington returned from his surveying trip, Lord Fairfax was greatly pleased with his work; and the governor of Virginia made him one of the public surveyors. By this means he was able to get work which paid him handsomely. ”

“ Major Washington becomes Colonel Washington; Fort Necessity; Braddock's defeat. End of the war with the French; what the king of England wanted to do; how the people here felt toward him. The king determines to have the money; the tea-ships, and the “Boston tea-party.” The king closes the port of Boston; Congress meet at Philadelphia; the names American and British; what General Gage tried to do. Paul Revere; the fight at Lexington and Concord; Bunker Hill. Colonel Washington at Mount Vernon; Congress makes him General Washington, and sends him to take command of the American army. ”

“ Arnold was a traitor; and if we could have caught him, we should have hanged him; but he was cunning enough to run away and escape to the British. Now he was burning houses and towns in Virginia, and doing all that he could—as a traitor always will—to destroy those who had once been his best friends. He wanted to stay in Virginia and assist Cornwallis ”

“ That six cents was a tax, and it went into the king's pocket. The people said, We won't pay that six cents. When the tea reached New York, the citizens sent it back again to England. They did the same thing at Philadelphia. At Charleston they let it be landed, but it was stored in damp cellars. People would not buy any of it any more than they would buy so much poison, so it all rotted and spoiled. At Boston they had a grand “tea-party.” A number of men dressed themselves up like Indians, went on board the tea-ships at night, broke open all the chests, and emptied the tea into the harbor. ”

“ The General or Continental Congress was an assembly of certain persons sent usually by all of the thirteen American colonies to meet at Philadelphia or Baltimore, to decide what should be done by the whole country. ”

“ Cornwallis shuts himself up in Yorktown.— When Lord Cornwallis got into Virginia, he found Benedict Arnold waiting to help him. Arnold had been a general in the American army; Washington gave hime the command of the fort at West Point, on the Hudson River, and trusted him as though he was his brother. Arnold deceived him, and secretly offered to give up the fort to the British. We call a man who is false to his friends and to his country a traitor ”

“ Washington's sports and games; playing at war; “Captain George.” The great battle with the colt, and what came of it. Washington goes on a visit to Mount Vernon; he makes the acquaintance of Lord Fairfax. Lord Fairfax hires Washington to survey his land; how Washington lived in the woods; the Indian war-dance. Washington at the age of twenty-one; the French in the west; the governor of Virginia sends Washington to see the French commander. The journey back; the Indian guide; how Washington found his way throught the woods ”