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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.
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