They placed the flag in position, sang a hymn, had a prayer, then every kid at a signal shot out his right hand toward the flag held aloft by the Yiddish colour bearer and pledged himself, heart, and soul, and body, to his flag and to his country.
The ceremony closed with the singing of the national hymn, mighty poor poetry and mighty hard to sing, but do you know listening to those kids and watching their foreign faces I found myself with tears in my eyes and swallowing like a darn fool.

Ever since that day I believe in flag-flapping." "Maybe you are right," replied Ross.

"You know we British folk are so fearfully afraid of showing our feelings.

We go along like graven images; the more really stirred up, the more graven we appear.

But suppose we move over to the platform where the speechifying is to be done." In front of the school building a platform had been erected, and before the stage, preparations had been made for seating the spectators as far as the school benches and chairs from neighbours' houses would go.