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A Brief History of the United States Produced by Robert Prince, Juliet Sutherland, Charles Franks and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. [Illustration: GEORGE WASHINGTON AND HISTORICAL SCENES] [Illustration: PLYMOUTH ROCK] * * * * * PREFACE. * * * * * The experience of all teachers testifies to the lamentable deficiency in historical knowledge among their pupils; not that children dislike the incidents and events of history, for, indeed, they prefer them to the improbable tales which now form the bulk of their reading, but because the books are "dry.





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