Every year our fathers and grandfathers and great-grandfathers have
"rejoiced together" like the Pilgrims, and have had something to be
thankful for each time.

Every year some father has told the story of the brave Pilgrims to his
little sons and daughters, and has taught them to be very glad and
proud that the Mayflower came sailing to our country so many years
ago.




LITTLE GEORGE WASHINGTON.

PART I.

"The child takes each story as a conquest, grasps each as a treasure,
and inserts into his own life, for his own advancement and
instruction, what each story teaches and shows."--Froebel.


Every one of my little children has seen a picture of George
Washington, I am sure.

Perhaps you may remember his likeness on a prancing white horse,
holding his cocked hat in his hand, and bowing low to the people, or
his picture as a general at the head of his armies, with a sword by
his side and high boots reaching to the knee; sometimes you have seen
him in a boat crossing the Delaware River, wrapped in his heavy