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Title: Under the Liberty Tree
A Story of The 'Boston Massacre'

Author: James Otis

Release Date: March 8, 2010 [EBook #31555]

Language: English

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UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE.

STORIES OF
American History,
BY
JAMES OTIS.

=Under the Liberty Tree:= A Story of the
Boston Massacre.

=The Boys of 1745= at the Capture of Louisbourg.

=An Island Refuge:= Casco Bay in 1676.

=Neal the Miller:= A Son of Liberty.

=Ezra Jordan's Escape= from the Massacre at
Fort Loyall.

_Each volume cloth, small 12 mo, neatly
bound, 75 cents._

ESTES & LAURIAT,
PUBLISHERS.

[Illustration]

UNDER THE LIBERTY TREE

A STORY OF
THE "BOSTON MASSACRE"

BY
JAMES OTIS

AUTHOR OF "JENNY WREN'S BOARDING-HOUSE," "JERRY'S FAMILY,"
"THE BOYS' REVOLT," "THE BOYS OF 1745," ETC.

[Illustration: Illustrated]

BOSTON
ESTES AND LAURIAT
1896

_Copyright, 1896,_
BY ESTES AND LAURIAT
_All rights reserved_

Colonial Press:
C. H. Simonds & Co., Boston, Mass., U.S.A.
Electrotyped by Geo. C. Scott & Sons

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER PAGE

I. THE LIBERTY TREE 11

II. FIRST FRUITS 29

III. LIBERTY HALL 49

IV. A DISCOMFITED CREDITOR 67

V. A NIGHT OF TERROR 81

VI. AFTER THE MASSACRE 101

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

THE SOLDIERS FIRE _Frontispiece_

"HOW LONG IS IT SINCE YOU HAVE BEEN HOBNOBBING
IN THAT QUARTER?" 13

"THEY ARE INDULGING IN TREASONABLE PRACTICES" 19

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