Excerpt from A Pageant for Independence Day Scene I. It is a Spring evening in the year 1774. The place is a quiet street in the outskirts of Bos ton. There are no houses in sight, but a white picket fence, 0 high hedge behind it, crosses the back of the stage. In the centre is a gate with tall posts, on one of which is sitting a lame boy with a crutch. He is looking intently up the street, from which direction one can hear shouting and singing. The sound grows louder and nearer. The boy [w avin g his cap and crutch]. Here they come! Here they come! Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah! Here come the Liberty Boys! About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.