Best of all was our trip to Mount Vernon, the home of Washington for forty years. It is an old-fashioned white colonial house on the banks of the Potomac river. We walked through halls where Washington had walked, saw the queer old kitchen and brick oven where his meals were cooked, the dining room and banquet hall where the Washingtons entertained, and the room where "The Father of his Country" died. He is buried out in the garden he loved so well and thousands of tourists visit the spot each year. We Berry Wagon Boys are as proud of being Americans first as we are of SEEING AMERICA FIRST! We hope that all American boys and girls feel just the same about it. [Illustration] TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES: Text in italics is surrounded with underscores: _italics_. Emboldened text is surrounded with equals signs: =bold=. Inconsistencies in spelling and punctuation have been standardized. End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of Seeing America First, by Eleanor Colby