James Ambrose Brown

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    When the Revolutionaries ran short of gun wadding the Rev. James Caldwell ... broke open the church doors and seized an armful of Watts’ hymnbooks. The preacher threw them to the soldiers and shouted, “Give ‘em Watts, boys—give ‘em Watts!”
    —For the State of New Jersey, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Whippersnapper clerks
    Call us out of our name
    We got to say mister
    To spindling boys
    —Sterling Allen Brown (b. 1901)