: The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury by Coolidge Asenath Carver Coolidge Cassius M Illustrator - Didactic fiction; Children Death Fiction; Fourth of July Fiction; Fireworks Fiction

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CHAPTER. PAGE.

Preface vii.

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The Funny Fourth Racket on English Soil 62

Going to Visit the President 82

"A Feast is Better than Firecrackers" 118

"Fire, Fire!" Cried a Voice 134

The Independence Day Horror at Killsbury

THE CORNWALLIS COTTAGE.

It was Independence Day. The sun rose gorgeously. The air was electric and inspiring. Blossoming plants were exhaling rare fragrance. The forests and rivers were palpitating with glad, soft sounds and gentle fervor. The birds were singing jubilantly, and various forms of living things were alert and antic. Yes, it was "Independence Day in the morning" as the Killsbury boys called it. It was full of glorious promise--the list of the dead and wounded had not as yet come in!

Apparently there were not half a dozen people in the town who would have admitted that there would be any casualties on the day that had dawned so beautifully; although there had been an increasing number of them every year since Millionaire Schwarmer had come and built his mansion on "The Hill" and decorated its brow with a big-mouthed cannon.

The cannon began to boom as soon as the sun appeared above the horizon. It continued to boom industriously as though it were determined to wake up every citizen in Killsbury and the surrounding country to the important fact that "Independence Day had really and truly and unmistakably dawned," as Captain Dan Solomon facetiously remarked. It was a fact that would have been well known and appreciated, at least by every inmate of the Cornwallis Cottage, even though there had been no cannon on Schwarmer Hill to vomit it forth; for the reason that the sole son of the house, Laurens Angelo Cornwallis, had been born on that day.

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