The Young Continentals at Monmouth

“WILL YOU HAVE SUPPER?”
by John T. M c . Intyre Author of “The Young Continentals at Lexington” “The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill” “The Young Continentals at Trenton”
Illustrated by Ralph L. Boyer.
The Penn Publishing Company Philadelphia MCMXII
COPYRIGHT 1912 BY THE PENN PUBLISHING COMPANY
Four sturdy young members of the Continental Army are the chief characters in this story. Ben Cooper and Nat Brewster were from Pennsylvania. Ezra Prentiss and his twin brother George were from Massachusetts. “The Young Continentals at Lexington,” the first book of the series, was chiefly concerned with the adventures of Nat Brewster, although all of the four had a part in the stirring events in and around Boston at the beginning of the struggle for the independence of the American Colonies. They were all employed as couriers attached to headquarters, and carried messages for Warren and Putnam, and later for the great general-in-chief, Washington. The second story, “The Young Continentals at Bunker Hill,” told of the part played by Ezra Prentiss, assisted by his friends, and the third story, “The Young Continentals at Trenton,” described some of the good services rendered by George Prentiss. This book tells the story of Ben Cooper at Princeton and in the dark period of Brandywine and Valley Forge, and ends with the victory at Monmouth, when Washington overcame not only his open enemies, but “they of his own household.”
All four books are true pictures of the days when even boys showed that they could be good patriots, and set an example of loyal, modest, faithful service that thousands of American boys are still glad to follow.
The Young Continentals at Monmouth
“Do you know what to-morrow will be, Ben Cooper?”
The speaker was a dwarfish looking lad whose big head and upstanding crest of hair gave him a most curious appearance.
“To-morrow,” replied the second boy, promptly, “will be New Year’s day.”
The dwarf shifted his leather belt so that his huge service pistol might hang more comfortably; and his voice, when he spoke again, contained a note of complaint.