What do you say, Jack?"
"Stars and stripes," replied Jack.
"Good," said Rand, "but not good enough. What do you say, Gerald?"
"Forty-six stars representing the forty-six States of the Union,
in a blue field in the upper right-hand corner," replied Gerald,
"with thirteen alternate stripes of red and white, representing
the thirteen original States."
"Correct," commended Rand. "Now, how many red and how many white
stripes?"
"Blessed if I know," admitted Pepper.
"I thought you said it was easy," said Rand. "There are seven red
and six white, beginning and ending with red."
"Gee!" cried Pepper, "there's a lot more to it than I thought, but
I guess we have got it now, all right."
"Now about the knots," went on Rand, whereupon they fell to tying
the different knots until they had mastered them all before it was
time to go home.
"Well, young gentlemen," began the colonel, a few days later,
when the six boys met at his house in the woods to be sworn in as
tenderfeet, "I suppose you know the requirements and that you are
ail ready?"
"All ready!" responded Pepper.
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