The Liberty Tree was a famous elm tree that stood in Boston, near Boston Common, in the days before the American Revolution. The tree was a rallying point for the growing resistance to the rule of Britain over the American colonies. In the years that followed, almost every American town had its own Liberty Tree - a living symbol of popular support for individual liberty and resistance to tyranny. In some locales, a Liberty Pole rather than a tree served the same political purpose. Under the Liberty Tree is a story about the Boston Massacre and events leading to the American Revolution.

Excerpt: ...though," Seth said thoughtfully, speaking half to himself, and then taking some coins from his pocket, he added, "You go out and buy the stuff. I'll wait here." "Why don't you come with me?" "I'm 'fraid if Ninety-four's men should see me they'd think I was runnin' 'round swellin'." "Well, s'posen they should? Haven't you got the right? Wouldn't most any feller who's got as near into the Department as you have?" "Mr. Davis said I was to go down-town to-morrow mornin', an' perhaps that's all he thought I ought'er do, so I'll hang on here instead of goin' out ag'in." Dan was not...

The Boy Spies of Philadelphia: The Story of How Young Spies Helped the Continental Army at Valley Forge by James Otis

Excerpt: ...I haven't yet despaired of holding the whole wicked crew in check. It doesn't seem possible that God would withhold His hand while we are being beaten." "And yet it has been that many people in this country, whose cause was as just as ours, have been overcome by the same merciless foe who await us." "Ay, Sue, and since we can only take what comes as stoutly as decent English people should, we'll seem to be brave, however timorous our hearts may become when the last moment is at hand." Then these two children, striving to fill the places of their parents, began that vigil which...

Excerpt: ...sand. His distress rendered him reckless; and regardless Pg 42 of the future, he drank fully half the water in the canteen, bathing his eyes with a small quantity poured in the hollow of his hand. It would have been better if he had not tried to find relief by this last method, for the flying particles of sand adhered to such portions of his face as were wet, forming a coating over the skin almost instantly. He attempted to brush it off, and the gritty substance cut into his flesh as if he had rubbed it with emery-paper. Then came into Dick's mind the thought that he should never...

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Excerpt: ... Mr. Stubbs's brother, even if you have gone to sleep." Then he went to meet Abner. When he reached the place where he had left his friend, to his great surprise he could see nothing of him. There was no possibility that he could have made any mistake as to the locality, for he had left him standing just behind the skeleton's tent. 123 Toby ran quickly around the enclosure, asked some of the attendants in the dressing-room if they had seen a boy on crutches, and then he went into Mr. Treat's tent. But he could neither hear nor see anything of Abner, whose complete disappearance...

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