A heroine of 1812

“ You’d do well to come out here, Aunt Martha. ”
A Maryland Romance
AMY E. BLANCHARD
Illustrated by Ida Waugh
W. A. WILDE COMPANY
BOSTON CHICAGO
Copyright, 1901 , By W. A. Wilde Company. All rights reserved.
A Heroine of 1812.
THE GRANDSON OF AN “OLD DEFENDER” I LOVINGLY DEDICATE THIS STORY OF HIS MARYLAND AND MINE
A. E. B.
When the Ship Came In.
A warm evening in early June of the year 1812 showed the streets of Baltimore city gay with groups of people crowding the steps of the houses, or sauntering up and down from corner to corner. Slender girls with arms around each other, circles of children merrily piping out some ring-around-a-rosy, young men stopping before this or that door for a few minutes’ chat,—all served to make a lively scene.