Jason Elmer Hammond, Suggestive programs for special day exercises… (1898)
“ H. C. BUNNER. Grandfather Watts used to tell us boys That a Fourth wa'n't a Fourth without any noise. He would say, with a thump of his hickory stick, That it made an American right down sick To see his sons on the Nation’s day Sit round in a sort of a listless way. With no oration and no train-band, No fire-work show and no root-beer stand, While his grandsons, before they were out of bibs, Were ashamed—Great Scott!!—to fire off squibs. ”
