We have in Plate VI. some few examples of these vagaries from sketches that we made at the time. Fig. 45, if it had not got the Union in the canton, would nearly be the Danish flag, Fig. 225, but the addition of the canton makes it sheer foolishness. Fig. 46 is a good example of the notion that anything will do if it be only bright enough: it is a mere piece of patchwork, not by any means the only one in evidence. Figs. 47 and 50 explain themselves; it is evident that in one case the decorator started with a white ensign and in the other with a blue one, and then, feeling that they were a little small and insignificant looking, tacked on a goodly amount of red material to bring them up to their notion of what would be sufficiently conspicuous in size. Fig. 48 is very quaint: there is a notion of the white ensign hovering about it, but the Royal Standard employed as a canton in one quarter is outside all the proprieties, and in any case all the arm of the cross that one would expect to see below the canton is absorbed by it. The addition of the two red tails to the Royal Standard in Fig. 49 is not by any means legitimate, while in Fig. 51 the Royal Standard is made the canton of a red ensign, and, as if this were not bad enough in itself, the whole thing is flown upside down. Many of the so-called flags had no semblance to anything, some were strange and abnormal tricolors; others, chequers: one, we remember, was deep crimson, with a broad bordering round three of its edges of light blue. Whatever opportunity of going wrong seemed to be at all feasible appeared to be eagerly seized by some well-meaning burgess, so that the result was a perfect museum of examples of how not to do it, and therefore of immense interest. * * * * * {61} CHAPTER III. Army Flags--the Queen's Colour--the Regimental Colour--the Honours and Devices--the Flag of the 24th Regiment--Facings--Flag of the King's Own Borderers--What the Flag Symbolises--Colours of the Guards--the Assaye Flag--Cavalry Flags--Presentation of Colours--Chelsea College Chapel--Flags of the Buffs in Canterbury Cathedral--Flags of the Scottish Regiments in St. Giles's Cathedral--Burning of Rebel Flags by the Hangman--Special Flags for various Official Personages--Special Flags for different Government Departments--The Lord High Admiral--The Mail Flag--White Ensign of the Royal Yacht Squadron--Yacht Ensigns and Burgees--House or Company Flags--How to express Colours with Lines--the Allan Tricolor--Port Flags--the British Empire--the Colonial Blue Ensign and Pendant--the Colonial Defence Act--Colonial Mercantile Flag--Admiralty Warrant--Flag of the Governor of a Colony--the Green Garland--the Arms of the Dominion of Canada--Badges of the various Colonies--Daniel Webster on the Might of England--Bacon on the Command of the Ocean.