Show I C r bafo u fk sy N ls fh J th 71 e keen AND HOW independence WAS DECLARED T N MY young days said grandaunt mary alary girls man want to go in with the alie boys to play games n 0 r a n d a it it t mary shook her hend head and rocked peacefully loolu cooki ing over lier her spec spectacles tables at grandniece mary alary who was wag doubled up in a heap in a corner of the rose scented vor aada it the gaines walled mary disconsolately its a race a fourth of july race that I 1 want wak to go in dear dear child get yourself all heated up it yoi yet flounce about like that and so you would in A a race well go and seo see the boys and you can wear your pretty now new white dress coin merited grandaunt mary calmly with no imo idea of further rebell rebellion ibn which she was arousing in her breast 1 I dont want to be dressed up mary was begin beginning in a still greater outburst of revolt when she was interrupted by a now new arrival a thin girl with bright blue eyes and bright ired hair who dashed around the cornor corner of the veranda us as if it a very hot third of july indeed and the hottest part of the afternoon oon i oh mary cried the red haired etri oh bunny cried ailed mary alary have Y you on heard beard about it the these se hateful boys boya arent going to let us be in the races they say they dont want girls on the program at nil all and with our records too who told you demanded winny bunny torn said mary alary that settled it the news was evidently authentic ibi for tom was marys brother and both girls knew his word was not to be doubted besides lie ho was chairman of the committee on fourth of july Is Poris which the boys of Doug douglaston Dou glaston lasto were going to hold at the village school grounds an admission of 25 cents for grownups grown ups upa and ten cents for children was to be charged and with the proceeds now new stilts aults were to be for the junior liall ball team of at course lif in some places the girls have thought of haying having a part in so important an event but the sarla girl of douglaston Dou glaston and their summer visitors were very fond of al all I 1 sorts of sports and bunny and mary were pa embers of a small group of girls who had come from big schools where athletics and gymnastic work were a important part of the course consequently they felt deeply aggrieved at being de barred front from participating in the bourth sports and it would be much more interesting it if 0 they by had at least one girls ace ce walled mary bursting forth again with her complaint everybody la 13 always more interested in girls event s than in boys im sure more people would go bunny suddenly bud denly sprang into the air and began clapping her hands in the wildest t fashion mary youre it a dear a dear she cried ive thought of something and well do it too bring your gym bloo bloomers and come over to my house right after tea and tell susie sand and evelyn ill tell the rest of the girls there now said aunt mary what la Is that child going to do 1 I 1 dont know but bunny does docs bubnys found a way ca rolled mary joyously and she ran gayly off to look up tier her gymnasium suit |