Chapter 1. A Declaration Of Independence
_ CHAPTER I. A DECLARATION OF INDEPENDENCE
"Pretty Polly Oliver, my hope and my fear,
Pretty Polly Oliver, I‘ve loved you so dear!"
DINAH MARIA MULOCK.
"I have determined only one thing definitely," said Polly Oliver； "and that is, the boarders must go. Oh, how charming that sounds! I ‘ve been thinking it ever since I was old enough to think, but I never cast it in such an attractive, decisive form before. ‘The Boarders Must Go!‘ To a California girl it is every bit as inspiring as ‘The Chinese Must Go.‘ If I were n‘t obliged to set the boarders‘ table, I ‘d work the motto on a banner this very minute, and march up and down the plaza with it, followed by a crowd of small boys with toy drums."
"The Chinese never did go," said Mrs. Oliver suggestively, from the sofa.
"Oh, that‘s a trifle； they had a treaty or something, and besides, there are so many of them, and they have such an object in staying."
"You can‘t

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