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The Queen’s Cup

CHAPTER 6
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I thought it better that he should do so, as in the first place, he did not know any of you, and in the next, as you see, we are pretty closely packed as it is." "What is that flag at the masthead ?" Lady Greendale asked.

"Bertha said that your flag was going to have an eagle on it." "That is on my racing flag.

Let me impress upon you, ladies, that a racing flag is a square flag, and that that is not a flag at all, but a burgee.

Every club has its burgee; as you see, that is a white cross on a blue ground with a crown in the centre, and is the burgee of the Royal Thames, of which I was elected a member last month.
"Here we are.

Properly, I ought to be on board first, but I am too wedged in.


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