What kind of a land is ours? What is meant by the stars and stripes?
Over what buildings do we see the flag floating? What kind of a flag
is it? For what does our flag stand? For what else does it stand?
What does our flag proclaim? Who is proud of the flag? What does our
flag tell to all the people? How many stars are there in the flag?
For what does each star stand? When was the first American flag made?
By whom was it made? In what city was it made? What did Washington
think of it when he saw it? How do we Americans look upon the flag?
When is Flag Day? etc., etc.


DICTATION EXERCISES

_See Remarks to the Teacher, Page vii_.

Our country has a _beautiful_ flag. This flag _proclaims_ or declares
liberty to the people. I am _delighted_ with my country's flag. I
pledge _allegiance_ or _fidelity_ to my flag. Our nation is
_indivisible_; it cannot be parted.




SELECTION I

A CITY STREET

I love the woods, the fields, the streams,
The wild flowers fresh and sweet,