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PEGGY OWEN AND LIBERTY
_BY_ 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."
Introduction
In "Peggy Owen," the first book of this series, is related the storyof a little Quaker maid who lived across from the State House inPhiladelphia, and who, neutral at first on account of her religion,became at length an active patriot. The vicissitudes and annoyances towhich she and her mother are subjected by one William Owen, an officerin the English army and a kinsman of her father's, are also given.
"Peggy Owen, Patriot" tells of Peggy's winter at Middlebrook, innorthern New Jersey, where Washington's army is camped, her capture bythe British and enforced journey to the Carolinas, and final returnhome.
"Peggy Owen at Yorktown" details how Peggy goes to Virginia to nurse acousin, who is wounded and a prisoner. The town is captured by theBritish under Benedict Arnold, the traitor, and Peggy is led tobelieve that he has induced the desertion of her friend, JohnDrayton. Drayton's rescue from execution as a spy and the siege ofYorktown follow.
In the present volume Peggy's friends rally about her when her CousinClifford is in danger of capture. The exciting events of the storyshow the unsettled state of the country after the surrender ofCornwallis.
Contents
I. A SMALL DINNER BECOMES A PARTY 11
II. PEGGY IS SURPRISED 26
III. ON THE HORNS OF A DILEMMA 40
IV. THE SEARCH 53
V. FRIENDS IN NEED 69
VI. APPEARANCES AGAINST HER 81
VII. DAVID OWEN IS INFORMED OF THE FACTS 94
VIII. BEFORE THE COUNCIL 108
IX. OUT OF THE FRYING-PAN INTO THE FIRE 120
X. A RACE FOR LIFE 134
XI. THE CHOICE OF FAIRFAX 144
XII. "THEY MUST GO HOME" 163
XIII. A WOMAN'S WIT 176
XIV. MARCHING ORDERS 194
XV. THE ATTACK ON THE BLOCKHOUSE 215
XVI. "OF WHAT WAS HE GUILTY?" 227
XVII. A GLIMPSE OF HOME 244
XVIII. HEROD OUT HERODED 256
XIX. THE TURN OF THE WHEEL 272
XX. A SLIGHT EMPHASIS OF "THAT" 285
XXI. CHOSEN BY LOT 303
XXII. WHAT CAN BE DONE? 318
XXIII. A LITTLE HUMOR DESPITE A GRIM SITUATION 334