Tag: Great Stories for Little Americans
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Great Stories for Little Americans: How Benny West Learned to be a Painter
In old times there lived in Pennsylvania a little fellow whose name was Benjamin West. He lived in a long stone house. He had never seen a picture. The country was new, and there were not many pictures in it. Benny’s father was a Friend or Quaker. The Friends of that day did not think…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: George Washington and His Hatchet
It was Arbor Day in the Mossy Hill School, Johnny Littlejohn had to speak a piece that had something to do with trees. He thought it would be a good plan to say something about the little cherry tree that Washington spoiled with his hatchet, when he was a little boy. This is what he…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Daniel Boone’s Daughter and Her Friends
Daniel Boone and his brother picked out a good place in Kentucky to settle. Then they went home to North Carolina. They took with them such things as were curious and valuable. These were the skins of animals they had killed, and no doubt some of the heads and tails. Boone was restless. He had…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Daniel Boone and His Grapevine Swing
Daniel Boone was the first settler of Kentucky. He knew all about living in the woods. He knew how to hunt the wild animals. He knew how to fight Indians, and how to get away from them. Nearly all the men that came with him to Kentucky the first time were killed. One was eaten…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: Israel Putnam and the Wolf
Israel Putnam was a brave soldier. He fought many battles against the Indians. After that he became a general in the Revolution. But this is a story of his battle with a wolf. It took place when he was a young man, before he was a soldier. Putnam lived in Connecticut. In the woods, there…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: A Great Good Man
Some men are great soldiers. Some are great lawmakers. Some men write great books. Some men make great inventions. Some men are great speakers. Now you are going to read about a man that was great in none of these things. He was not a soldier. He was not a great speaker. He was never…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: John Stark and the Abenaki Indians
John Stark was a famous general in the Revolution. But this story is not about the Revolution. It is about Stark before he became a soldier. When he was a young man, Stark went into the woods. His brother and two other young men were with him. They lived in a camp. It was far…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE.
FRANKLIN’S WHISTLE. When Franklin was an old man, he wrote a cu-ri-ous letter. In that letter he told a story. It was about some-thing that happened to him when he was a boy. Here is the story put into verses, so that you will re-member it better. Some day you can read the story as…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN AND THE KITE.
When Franklin wanted to know whether the ants could talk or not, he asked the ants, and they told him. When he wanted to know some-thing else, he asked the sunshine about it, as you have read in another story. That is the way that Franklin came to know so many things. He knew how…
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Great Stories for Little Americans: FRANKLIN ASKS THE SUNSHINE SOMETHING.
One day Franklin was eating dinner at the house of a friend. The lady of the house, when she poured out the coffee, found that it was not hot. She said, “I am sorry that the coffee is cold. It is because the servant forgot to scour the coffee-pot. Coffee gets cold more quickly when…