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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 455

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t there be thirteen stars, white ina blue field, representing a new constellation. This was the origin of the national flag. At first,as the number of the stripes was unequal, the flag veryoften varied. It was not authoritatively decided forsome time that seven red and six white were to beadopted.… … the CROSSING. BY JAMES M. HALLOWELL,AGE 10. having two horizontal red bars, and, above these, arow of three red stars. After Vermont, in 1790, andKentucky, in 1792, had entered the Union, the starsand stripes were changed. Later on, as other Statesjoined, the flag, came to consist of twenty stars…

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