Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1902-07-11
THIS DECLARATION
WAS MADE WITH DELlBERATION
AND DIGNITY

WAS MADE WITH DELlBERATION
AND DIGNITY
But It Did Not Work Quite as Successfully
as the Jeffersonian Edict - The GOverness
Was Tyrant and They RcbelIed Same as
Our Forefathers Did-Thc Tyrant Was. How
ever Too Much for Them and Locked the
Chief Rebel in His Room.
You have all read the Declaration
of Independence, l suppose. 1t is
printed in fine type in the back of the
Child's History, and at the top of the
names signed at the end to show how
they wrote them, is John Hancock's,
big and bold, the way person would
write if he were doing it with a burnt
match. Papa used to gather us to-
gether in the parlor after breakfast
every Fourth OF July and read up
parts OF it and explain the long words,
so that it wasn't just TO burn holes in
your clothes, and frighten horses, and
leave stubs OF fire-crackers on the side
walk that don't get swept up for days.
When we children came to have our
own revolution against the governess
that time mamma and papa went away
to be gone two days, we knew just how
to 60 about it; and we wrote a Dec
laration of Independence, copying it
after the real true one, and then we all
signed our names at the bottom with
big flourishes, the way John Hancock
and the others did.
Our governess' name was Georgiana
-Georgiana Saunders-which made it
all the more appropriate, because the
name OF the king about whom the
original Declaration was written was
George, as you probably know.
When we got the declaration done,
it was something like this-some of
the language we took from the book,
and some we made up ourselves:
When in the course Of human events
| it becomes necessary for something to be
done about it, and we can't stand it any
longer. The history of our present gov
erness is history of repeated injuries
and usurpations. To prove this let facts
be submitted to candid world.
l. She makes rs brush our teeth
twice day, which is unnecessary, as
| well as wasteful.
2. She won't let us lay books face
and are long time finding it when you
come back.
3. She objects if you make fort in
your mashed potatoes.
5. She won't let us breathe on the
window and write with our fingers days
when it rains
5. We can't have butter and sugar on
our rice, only milk and sugar.
6. She notices, and makes US 60 back
to look, when we've made fngermarks
on the white paint.
Z. We have to make our own beds,
and then if there is wrinkle, or it isn't
done right, we have to do it all over
again.
She's just awful, every way you can
think of.
We therefore do solemnly publish and
declare that we are and by right ought
to be free and independent, and that our
mother and our father went away this
morning and will not be back until TO-
morrow evening, and that she is not our
mother and our father, never has been
and never will be, and that we mean to
do as we please, and that we have full
right to levy war and also to do all other
acts and things. And to this we pledge
our lives, our fortunes and our sacred
honor, (Signed)
ARTHUR L. BAINBRIDGE,
Chats me).
MARJORIE BAINRRIDGE,
HESTER X. BAINBRIDGE,
CHARLES w. BAINBRIDGE,
GREGORY BAINBRIDGE,
(his mark).
And we brought in Rex-he's mix
ture of an English mastiff and Siber-
ian bloodhound-and we linked his
paw, and made him step on the paper
just below Gregory's name. And then
we drew a circle round it and wrote
i" Rex, his mark" Then Mazda, the
collie dog, had to come in too, and
pretty soon there was mark about
the size of hot-house violet, just be-
low where Rex had printed big black
carnation shaped thing with his lordly
paw. Spotty, the cat, was the best OF
all, she upset the ink bottle on the
nursery carpet, and got all her four
paws in the ink, and then ran right
across the paper, so her name was in
several places. Charley, (who wrote
it,, was sort of mad at first-said it
spoiled the looks of the paper, and it
would have to be written all over. but
we told him it showed how interested
and enthusiastic Spotty was.
Then Marjorie got her sealingwax
and took a piece of red silk ribbon and
made kind Of bow out Of it with long
streaming ends; and we put q seal
down in the lower left.hand corner.
And when it was all finished, it was
work of art. Then the question was,
what should we do with it.
Lets put it at her plate at break
FAST" suggested Hester.
"Better send it through the msil,'
said Marjorie" she won't dare to say
anything to the postman.
"Pin it ON her door," said Charley.
NO." said, "that won't do. The
original declaration was read out loud
l know. cause I asked papa. They
read it out loud and then they rang a
big bell till it cracked. Why, do you
suppose we'd be honoiing the men,
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