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Children's Book of Patriotic Stories

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Read by Juan Castellanos, Stephanie Gish, Chris Pyle, BettyB, Bill Mosley, Melanie Campbell, Keith Salis, De Anna Lee, Christina Lauralino, Joy H., BookBard, Hope, deaspoke and Wayne Cooke · LibriVox · public domain · Archive.org recording · License

Chapters

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Jabez Rockwell’s Powder-horn. By Ralph D. Paine (22:31)
The Little Lord of the Manor. By Elbridge S. Brooks (37:57)
Old Esther Dudley. By Nathaniel Hawthorne (20:59)
Betty’s Ride. By Henry S. Canby (12:44)
The First Blow for American Liberty. By Emma W. Demeritt (20:29)
The Battle of Bunker’s Hill. By Washington Irving (20:33)
Her Punishment. By Elizabeth Gibson (6:27)
Famous Words at Great Moments (14:22)
The Little Fifer. By Helen M. Winslow (11:07)
Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys. By Washington Irving (7:51)
The Capture of the Hennepin Gun. By Margaret Emma Ditto (20:55)
Paul Revere’s Ride. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (6:24)
Tony’s Birthday and George Washington’s. By Agnes Repplier (9:45)
A Venture in 1777. By S. Weir Mitchell (29:53)
A Venture in 1777. By S. Weir Mitchell continued (30:57)
A Tempest in a Big Tea-pot. By Samuel Adams Drake (4:33)
How the Warning Was Given. By Mabel Nelson Thurston (22:34)
Susan Tongs. By Ethel Parton (20:32)
The Little Minute-man. By H. G. Paine (11:24)
General Gage and the Boston Boys. By Samuel Adams Drake (2:31)
Washington and the Spy. By James Fenimore Cooper (17:57)
Three Washington Anecdotes. Adapted from M. L. Weems (9:28)
When George the Third Was King By Elbridge S. Brooks (7:22)
Their Flag Day. By Herbert O. McCrillis (5:29)
A True Story of the Revolution. By Everett T. Tomlinson (16:12)
Polly Callendar: Tory. By Margaret Fenderson (16:26)
Neil Davidson in Disguise. By Mary Tracy Earle (22:50)
John Paul Jones. By Rupert S. Holland (16:24)