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Title: Peggy Owen and Liberty

Author: Lucy Foster Madison

Illustrator: H. J. Peck

Release Date: January 12, 2010 [EBook #30940]

Language: English

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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

[Illustration: "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 story
of a little Quaker maid who lived across from the State House in
Philadelphia, and who, neutral at first on account of her religion,
became at length an active patriot. The vicissitudes and annoyances to
which she and her mother are subjected by one William Owen, an officer
in the English army and a kinsman of her father's, are also given.

"Peggy Owen, Patriot" tells of Peggy's winter at Middlebrook, in
northern New Jersey, where Washington's army is camped, her capture by
the British and enforced journey to the Carolinas, and final return
home.

"Peggy Owen at Yorktown" details how Peggy goes to Virginia to nurse a
cousin, who is wounded and a prisoner. The town is captured by the
British under Benedict Arnold, the traitor, and Peggy is led to
believe that he has induced the desertion of her friend, John
Drayton. Drayton