Child Life, July 1st, 2000
"Have you heard? Have you heard?" cried Suzanne, running down to the edge of the swamp where the Dana boys were at work with their flax crop. "Captain Cushing has posted a notice that the settlement will have a big parade on the Fourth, with a prize for the child in the best, patriotic-est costume! Polly Miles is sure she will get it if she wears her mother's wedding gown of plum-colored double satin. And Tommy James is just as sure he's going to get it, for he thinks his father will let him wear the captain's uniform he had in the army. I tell him he'll look awful in it, but he says he does...
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