THE BOY OF THE FRONTIER, _Albert J. Beveridge_ 427 In a Log Cabin Off to the Blue Ridge Making an American Give Me Liberty! THE YOUNG LIEUTENANT, _Horace Binney_ 433 SERVING THE CAUSE, _Henry Flanders_ 434 AT VALLEY FORGE, _William Henry Rawle_ 435 SILVER HEELS, _J. B. Thayer_ 436 WITHOUT BREAD, _John Marshall’s Sister_ 437 HIS MOTHER, _Sallie E. Marshall Hardy_ 438 HIS FATHER, _Justice Joseph Story_ 438 THREE STORIES, _James B. Thayer_ 439 What Was in the Saddlebags Eating Cherries Learned in the Law of Nations THE CONSTITUTION 442 EXPOUNDING THE CONSTITUTION, _Chief Justice Waite_ 444 THE GREAT CHIEF JUSTICE, _Horace Binney_ 446 Respected by All The True Man WHAT OF THE CONSTITUTION? _Washington_, _Bolivar_, _Webster_, _Lincoln_ 448 ENVOY 450 APPENDIX I. Programme of Stories from the History of the United States 453 II. Story Programme of South America’s Struggle for Independence 460 SUBJECT INDEX 465 ILLUSTRATIONS BREAKFAST WITH THE CHILDREN AT MOUNT VERNON _Frontispiece_ COLUMBUS EXAMINES THE PEARLS 18 ROOSEVELT BREAKING “DEVIL” 50 JOHN BILLINGTON BROUGHT ON THE SHOULDERS OF AN INDIAN 136 FRANKLIN AND THE KITE EXPERIMENT 170 “HE’S BEAUTIFUL” 182 “‘TREASON! TREASON!’ CRIED SOME OF THE EXCITED MEMBERS” 318 PAUL JONES HOISTING THE STARS AND STRIPES 362 _Drawn by Frank T. Merrill_ OCTOBER 12 COLUMBUS AND DISCOVERER’S DAY _The Very Magnificent Lord Don Cristobal Colon, High Admiral of the Ocean Sea, Viceroy and Governor of the Islands and Tierra Firma._ COLUMBUS _“My men grow mutinous day by day; My men grow ghastly wan and weak.” The stout Mate thought of home; a spray Of salt wave washed his swarthy cheek. “What shall I say, brave Admiral, say, If we sight naught but seas at dawn?” “Why you shall say at break of day, Sail on! Sail on! Sail on! and on!”_