"That a little girl can serve her country in time of trouble quite as splendidly as the boys and men of the family is the thought underlying this story. Polly Trotter's brother and her father help the Colonies bravely in their fight for freedom, and Polly bewails the fact that because she is a girl there is nothing she can do. Her error in thinking this and the noble and courageous way in which she helps the cause make up as striking a story of Revolutionary Days as The Maid of '76, by the same authors."