Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 596
f course we had no flag ; we had to earn thattoo. For a year or so our privateers carried theMassachusetts State flag. It was better, theythought, than the English flag, at any rate. Thefield was of white bunting; in the middle, agreen pine-tree, as you see in the above picture; and on the opposite… … THE RATTLESNAKE FLAG. had, and she carried the pine-tree flag, and besidethat, one with thirteen stripes, in red and white,but with no stars ; while on the stripes was coileda rattle-snake, with the motto, Dont tread onme. The rattle-snake being found only in Amer-ica, there was, of course, a…
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