Peggy Owen and Liberty

The Project Gutenberg EBook of Peggy Owen and Liberty, by Lucy Foster Madison This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: Peggy Owen and Liberty Author: Lucy Foster Madison Illustrator: H. J. Peck Release Date: January 12, 2010 [EBook #30940] Language: English Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK PEGGY OWEN AND LIBERTY *** Produced by Juliet Sutherland, D Alexander and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net PEGGY OWEN AND LIBERTY B Y LUCY FOSTER MADISON AUTHOR OF “PEGGY OWEN” “PEGGY OWEN, PATRIOT” “PEGGY OWEN AT YORKTOWN” ETC. ILLUSTRATED BY H. J. PECK The Penn Publishing Company PHILADELPHIA MCMXIII COPYRIGHT 1912 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY “WHY, IT’S FATHER!” “The motto of our father-band Circled the world in its embrace: ’Twas Liberty throughout the land, And good to all their brother race. Long here—within the pilgrim’s bell Had lingered—though it often pealed— Those treasured tones, that eke should tell Where freedom’s proudest scroll was sealed! Here the dawn of reason broke On the trampled rights of man; And a moral era woke Brightest since the world began.