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Updated: June 3, 2025
De la Vega recounted the meagre and conflicting rumours which had reached California, but, not being a prophet, could not tell them that they would be the first to see the red-white-and-blue fluttering on the mountain before them. He refused to rest more than an hour, but mounted the fresh horse the padres gave him and went his way, riding hard and relentlessly, like all Californians.
So he fetched out his frying-pan and plenty sausages and fried away for dear life with butter too, which was ruinous waste. He shared round the sausages, two to each man, and kept the Bean Pheasant to her course until the leading frigate fired a shot across her bows, and ran up the red-white-and-blue; and then, knowing the worst, he rounded-to as meek as a lamb.
"Oh, don't you look fine!" exclaimed Harry, who was captain of the boys. "And don't you too!" Nan answered, for indeed the boys had such funny big hats on and so many flags and other red-white-and-blue things, that they too made a fine appearance. "And Freddie!" exclaimed the girls. "Isn't he a lovely Uncle Sam!"
It was a wonder she had not mounted the dresser, too, for there, issuing in creepy single file from the wainscoting, came mice mice of various tints. A red one led the grewsome rank, a black and white one came next, then in decorous procession followed the guilty green one, a yellow one, a blue one, and finally horror of horrors! a red-white-and-blue mouse, carrying a tiny American flag.
To these helpless, homeless, hopeless people, the red-white-and-blue banner that streamed from our windshield really was a flag of the free. Brussels we found as quiet and orderly as London on a Sunday morning. So far as streets scenes went we might have been in Berlin.
"Take care, if you go over, that you all keep at a safe distance." It was not long until three o'clock, and then when all the red-white-and-blue things had been stored away for another year, the boys hurried off to see Peter Burns fire the old cannon. Quite a crowd of people had gathered about the pond bank, which was a high green wall like that which surrounds a reservoir.
But I won't wear your uniform; I can't afford to allow the glorious red-white-and-blue to look dowdy, as it would on my unseemly form." Josie O'Gorman had been in Dorfield several days before Mary Louise showed her the traitorous circulars that had been issued by some unknown obstructionist.
It was Aunt Mollie's turn to stare pridefully at the Peel plate on the chimney shelf. "A thing like that sets a family up, sorta." Uncle Clem had taken out a fat black cigar with a red-white-and-blue band. He bit off the end and alternately thrust it between his lips or felt of its thickness with a fondling thumb and finger. Luke, watching, felt a sudden compassion for the cigar.
People came from miles around to hear them. On the day of a debate, an open platform for the speakers was decorated with red-white-and-blue bunting. Flags flew from the housetops. When Senator Douglas arrived at the railroad station, his friends and admirers met him with a brass band. He drove to his hotel in a fine carriage. Abe had admirers, too.
He rose to the bait of one dark-eyed miss who had her hair done in two braids crossed and tied close to her head with red-white-and-blue ribbon, and who smiled alluringly and somewhat toothlessly and remarked that she liked to go 'way, 'way up till it most turned over, and that it didn't scare her a bit.
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