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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 417

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lagnow fly the Stars and Stripes, has for its houseflag a white flag on which is a blue spreadeagle. The company to which a steamship belongsis also indicated in many cases by the colorspainted on her smokestacks. You may feelsure, for instance, that a steamer with tall, redsmokestacks topped with… … WHAT THE FLAGS TELL. 405 on each side of which is painted a red star, isone of the Red Star Line. But we were considering only flags. Let uslook a little way up toward Tompkinsville, andsee the ships at anchor there. One has, besidesthe flags we have considered, a small blue flagwith a square white…

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