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"It was adapted from the Boston Liberty Tree, and was a blue flag with crescent in the dexter corner and the word 'Liberty' running lengthwise."
"There were other flags, too, weren't there?" asked Jack.
"Yes, there was the Rattlesnake Flag."
"The Rattlesnake Flag!" cried Pepper. "What was that like?"
"The Rattlesnake Flag was of the same date, 1775. It was a yellow flag with the representation of a rattlesnake coiled, ready to strike, in green, and the motto below it: 'Don't tread on me.'"
"Gee!" said Pepper, "it must have been a beauty."
"Were there any more?" asked Gerald.
"There was the Pine Tree Flag, with the motto 'An Appeal to Heaven.' This motto was adopted April, 1776, by the Provincial Congress of Massachusetts as the one to be borne as the Flag of the Cruisers of that colony. The first armed vessel commissioned under Washington sailed under this flag. It is thought that this flag was used at the battle of Bunker Hill."
"I didn't know," said Rand, "that the American flag had such a history. Can you tell us when the first Union flag was made?"
"The first Union flag was raised by Washington at Cambridge, January 2, 1776. This flag represented the union of the colonies--not then an established nation--and while this flag, by its stripes, represented the thirteen colonies, the canton was the king's colors."
"Then, when did the stars and stripes become the national flag?" asked Jack.
"On the 14th of June, 1777, Congress adopted the resolution that the flag of the thirteen United States be thirteen stripes alternating red and white, and that the Union be thirteen stars, white in a blue field, representing a new constellation. But I think the dinner must be ready by this time, and I have no doubt you are. You know the Scout motto is, 'Be prepared.'"
"We will do our best," responded Pepper.
"Well," said the colonel when, a little later, the dinner had been eaten to the last scrap, "how do you like Scout fare?"
"It's ail right," conceded Pepper, "as far as it goes," looking longingly about him.
"You think there wasn't enough of it," laughed the colonel. "You have a real Scout appetite."
"To change the subject, what about uniforms?" inquired Jack.
"We will have to have them, I suppose," replied Gerald.
"Sure," returned Pepper; "that's all right, they won't cost much."
"I have an idea," broke in Rand.
"Clutch it, Randolph, ere it flies!" cried Pepper; "what is it?"
"I think," went on Rand, "that it would be a good idea if we, each one of us, earned the money ourselves to buy our uniforms."
"'Tis no a bad idea," assented Donald.
"I think it is a very good one," commended the colonel. "You have caught the spirit of the organization."
"How shall we do it?" asked Jack.
"Any way you like," replied Rand. "We will have to work it out, each one for himself."
"All right," responded Pepper, "I am going to get busy right away."
"Right now, Pepper?" asked Dick.
"Now, that don't remind you of anything," warned Pepper. "Not just this minute, but as soon as I get back to town."
"What's your scheme, Pepper?" asked Donald.