Union Jack
IS DEDICATED WITH MUCH RESPECT BY ONE OF ITS SONS.
PLATE I.
| 1 English Jack—St. George's Crosse |
| 2 Scotch Jack—St. Andrew's Crosse |
| 3 Irish Jack—St. Patrick's Crosse |
This history of the Union Jack grew out of a paper principally intended to inform my boys of how the Union Jack of our Empire grew into its present form, and how the colours and groupings of its parts are connected with our government and history, so that through this knowledge the flag itself might speak to them in a way it had not done before.
A search for further information, extended over many varied fields, gathered together facts that had previously been separated, and grouped them into consecutive order; thus the story grew, and having developed into a lecture, was afterwards, at the suggestion of others, launched upon its public way.