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 1789.

1797.

GEORGE WASHINGTON.

The King of Eng-land, "George the Third," had made hard rules and bad laws for those who had left his land and come to A-mer-i-ca.

The folks bore these as well as they could but things grew worse and worse.

At last the men said; "We will die or be free."

Then came a war. There were but few, at first, to fight