ER XXV. MUST NEEDS BE READ, BEFORE A FULL AND
COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF THESE MATTERS CAN BE ARRIVED AT.

XXV.

_Resistance to Tyranny_ 288

ILLUSTRATING WHAT PART WASHINGTON TOOK IN THESE MEASURES OF
RESISTANCE TO BRITISH TYRANNY.--HOW HE BECAME A REPRESENTATIVE OF
VIRGINIA IN THE GREAT COLONIAL ASSEMBLY, OTHERWISE CALLED THE OLD
CONTINENTAL CONGRESS; AND HOW, UPON THE BREAKING-OUT OF
HOSTILITIES BETWEEN THE COLONIES AND THE MOTHER-COUNTRY, HE WAS
MADE COMMANDER-IN-CHIEF OF ALL THE FORCES OF THE UNITED COLONIES;
WITH OTHER ITEMS TOUCHING THE PROCEEDINGS OF THE CONTINENTAL
CONGRESS, AND PATRICK HENRY, THE GREAT VIRGINIA ORATOR.

XXVI.

_Conclusion_ 301

WHEREIN THE YOUNG READER WILL BE ENTERTAINED WITH THE PLEASING AND
EDIFYING CONVERSATION WHICH TOOK PLACE BETWEEN UNCLE JUVINELL AND
THE LITTLE FOLKS, TOUCHING DIVERS MATTERS IN BOOK FRIDAY; WHICH
DEMAND FURTHER CONSIDERATION FOR A MORE COMPLETE UNDERSTANDING OF
OUR HISTORY, PAST AND TO COME.

THE FARMER BOY.

INTRODUCTION.

Somewhere in green Kentucky, not a great many years ago, the ruddy
light of a Christmas sunset, streaming in at the windows of an
old-fashioned brick house, that stood on a gentle hillside, half
hidden by evergreens, shone full and broad on a group of merry little
youngsters there met together to spend the holiday with their Uncle
Juvinell, a charming old bachelor of threescore and ten.

What with "blind man's buff," "leap-frog," "hide-and-seek," "poor
pussy wants a corner," Mother Goose, dominos, sky-rockets and squibs,
and what with the roasting of big red apples and the munching of
gingerbread elephants, the reading of beautiful story-books,--received
that morning as Christmas presents from their Uncle Juvinell and other
loving relatives,--these little folks had found this day the most
delightful of their lives.

Tired at last of play, and stuffed with Christmas knick-knacks till
their jackets and breeches could hold no more, they had now betaken
themselves to the library to await the return of their Uncle Juvinell,
who had gone out to take his usual evening walk; and were now quietly
seated round a blazing winter fire, that winked and blinked at them
with its great bright eye, and went roaring right merrily up the wide
chimney. Just as the last beam of the setting sun went out at the
win