CHAPTER FIVE 



AMERICAN ROYALTY 



All you boys who read American history know 

 that on December 16, 1773, the British government 

 took the taxes off everything except tea, then tried 

 to force the Americans to become tea drinkers. 

 The result is that the United States has ever since 

 been a coffee-drinking country! 



A lot of our ancestors dressed up as Indians 

 and threw all the tea overboard in Boston Harbor. 

 The British Admiral Montague poked his head out 

 of the window, as the make-believe Indians went 

 by, and cried, " You've had a fine night for your 

 Indian caper, but you will have to pay the fiddler 

 yet!" To which our husky forefathers replied, 

 " Just come out here, and we'll settle the bill in 

 two minutes." 



You boys should be proud of those ancestors; 

 they were a spunky lot and when they threw the 

 tea overboard they thought they threw everything 

 relating to kings and royalty with it, but they were 

 mistaken, for right here in America we have native- 

 born emperors and a royal family ! 

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