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OBSERVATION
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and amusement to be got out of them, by watching their ways and habits, their nesting, and their way of teaching their young ones to fly.

Dissecting.—If you go to the butcher's and get him to give you a sheep's foot and you carefully open it up with a sharp penknife you will see how wonderfully every bone and joint and sinew is made and fitted into the machine which enables the foot to move and the sheep to get along. Then, if you think it out, you know that if you go away across the sea to the other end of the world, to Australia or New Zealand, and take a sheep's foot there and dissect it in the same way you find it exactly and identically the same over there as it is here. God's work is the same all over the world. People don't notice these things and don't think about them as a rule, and when you begin to think it out you begin to see what a wonderful work it is of God's, who made all these different animals in their own form, all alike, and yet so different from the other kind of animals, fishes, or birds. You begin to realise then what a wonderful Creator has made the world and all that is in it.

D. OUR FLAG

Scouts in uniform will always salute the colors (or standard of a regiment when they pass. There are generally two such standards, one the "Stars and Stripes," and the other the "Regimental Colors."

The Army and Government buildings fly the stars and stripes.