A Long Ago July 4th

by Phelicity

I would have liked to be there for one of the earliest times when my country's Independence was celebrated on the 4th of July. Like about 200 years ago, after the Declaration of Independence, after the Revolution was won, after the Constitution was written and the first President, George Washington, was elected. I might have belonged to one of our founding fathers, like John Adams, who signed the Declaration of Independence and became the second President himself! Meowie-wow!

Kitties were not pampered in those days, so I'm not sure I would have liked it, but it would have been very exciting! John Adams had a kind and good wife named Abigail. She would have given me saucers of cream and let me sleep in the house. The humans were different back then; they were busy working hard to build the free country we've enjoyed ever since. None would have thought to try to tear it down, the way some do now. I'm only a kitty, and I don't understand that at all.

I don't think they had fireworks and poppities in those days; what they did have was boom-booms. They might have celebrated Independence Day with a 21 gun salute! My, my, I hope the beds had unders back then, because all the kitties would have been scurrying for them, even me!

We still have a free country, and our humans are free to make all the noise they want to on such a great day. I like to watch out the door to try to see where the poppities are coming from, and look up in the sky to see if any sparkley, spidery colorful umbrellas of light are gonna come raining down. That's exciting enough for me. I don't hide under the bed like my sisfur does. I think it's fun! How can anykitty not like such a happy day? Would we rather not have it? I like it a lot!

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