Identifier: centurybookoffam00broo2 (find matches)
Title: The Century book of famous Americans : the story of a young people's pilgrimage to historic homes
Year: 1896 (1890s)
Authors: Brooks, Elbridge Streeter, 1846-1902
Subjects: Historic buildings -- United States United States -- Description and travel
Publisher: New York : Century Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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cle Tom shared their interest. It certainly is one of the most impressive relics in the world, he de-clared, as they passed from the Congress room to the National Museumacross the hall. I always feel as though I were looking on a real par-ticipator in the historic event which it proclaimed so vigorously a hundredyears or more ago. As you are, Bert declared; while Christine, looking at the windinghall stair, exclaimed : Oh, was it up those stairs that the boy ran to tell his grandfather to i»ring? You remember the old story, do you ? laughed Uncle Tom. Thoseshould be the stairs, if they have not been renewed or rebuilt. As to thetruth of that story, I am not prepared to decide. It s good enough to be true, anyhow, said Roger. It s all just like the poem, said Christine. Let s see, how did itgo? and she repeated the opening verse of the bell-ringer story as shehad spoken it in school : THE CENTURY BOOK OF FAMOUS AMERICANS ^~ ^ p : j ^»^M^MSRJ J ; fp( JSKJg fer Tffy. /,-4,^^^•^^ •f
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JULY 4, I776- Squarely prim and stoutly built,Free from glitter and from gilt,Plain, from lintel up to roof-tree and to belfry bare and brown,Stands the Hall that hot July,While the folk throng anxious by,Where the Continental Congress meets withinthe Quaker town. Hark! a stir, a sudden shout,And a boy comes springing out,Signalling to where his grandsire in the belfry waiting-stands: Ring ! he cries : the deed is done !Ring! they ve signed, and freedom s won! And the ringer grasps the bell-rope with hisstrong and sturdy hands; While the Bell, with joyous note, Clanging from its brazen throat, _. Rings the tidings, all-exultant — peals the news from shore to sea : Man is man — a slave no longer.Truth and Right than Might are stronger.Praise to God ! we re free ; we re free . THE HOME OF THE LIBERTY BELL 79 They lingered long over the extensive collection of revolutionary relicsin the museum room ; they visited the Congress Hall, where Washingtonand Adams had both been inaugurated

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