"I thought you said it was easy," said Rand. "There are seven red and six white, beginning and ending with red."
"Gee!" cried Pepper, "there's a lot more to it than I thought, but
I guess we have got it now, all right."
"Now about the knots," went on Rand, whereupon they fell to tying the different knots until they had mastered them all before it was time to go home.
"Well, young gentlemen," began the colonel, a few days later, when the six boys met at his house in the woods to be sworn in as tenderfeet, "I suppose you know the requirements and that you are ail ready?"
"All ready!" responded Pepper.
"Know the Scout law and are willing to obey it."
"Yes, sir."
"The composition of the American flag."
"I think we do," responded Pepper, repeating what he had learned the other night.
"And know how to fly it?"