Happy Birthday, Felicity

There's a couple of themes running through this story. For one thing, Felicity's grandfather is coming to visit. He gives Felicity a musical instrument like a guitar and she ends up taking it out of the house when she shouldn't and it gets wet in some rain when she leaves it somewhere and nearly forgets it.

The other theme is based on the growing political differences between the Colonists and the Loyalists (like her grandfather), and a plan by the British military to steal the gunpowder that's being held at the governor's mansion. Felicity sees it happen and raises the alarm.

It's an interesting story and again shows just how deeply divisive the political situation was just before the Revolutionary War, much as it was just before the Civil War.

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