Part 27 (1/2)
To go into the particulars of this tremendous spectacle would be ii every State in the Union There were brass bands galore, with Old Glory everywhere in evidence The crowd clapped and cheered, and sometimes shouted itself hoarse as some favorite command swept by with soldierly precision Here and there a hero was recognized, and then the din would increase
”Some parade, I say!” exclaimed Fred enthusiastically
”Isn't it wonderful how many soldiers there are?” marveled May, who sat next to hi?” questioned Grandfather Rover anxiously
”They'll be co pretty soon now,” answered Jack, who had been studying the prograi”
The New York State troops were now approaching, and the din became terrific, the nized
”Here they co down the line
”I see them! They are just at the corner!” added Mary
”There's dad! I see dad!” screamed Andy, to make himself heard above the noise ”There he is, in the front row on this side!”
”Yes, and there is my father!” yelled Fred ”See him? Two men away from Uncle Tom!”
”I see dad,” announced Jack ”He's in the middle See him with that medal on his breast?”
”Hurrah, boys! Hurrah for you!” yelled Grandfather Rover, and arose excitedly, shaking his cane in one hand and a s in the other
[Illustration: ”HURRAH FOR YOU, BOYS!” YELLED GRANDFATHER ROVER]
By this tis wildly dick, Toh they did not dare to turn their heads, they snition For the as it was for those on the stand
”Hurrah! Hurrah! Hurrah!” shouted the boys and girls, and their parents and other relatives joined in as strenuously as any one
Old Aunt Martha was crying openly, and the other women had also to wipe the tears from their eyes
”Somehow it chokes orously
The coreat parade continued hour after hour until it seerand procession
”Gracious! I didn't know there were so many soldiers in the whole world,” declared Aunt Martha at length
”If you are getting tired, Aunt Martha, I'll have somebody take you back to the house,” re the parade for four hours
”No, no I a to see it to the end,” declared the old lady ”It will be so as I live”
”Just think of a lot of soldiers like these fighting all over our farm at Valley Brook,” was Uncle Randolph's comment ”That's what they did over in France It s were cut up”
”My dad says you wouldn't believe it if you didn't see it,” answered Randy ”He said soh to dump a small barn in Think of holes like that in your pasture lot”
But even the greatest of parades must come to an end, and at last the final body of soldiers reat crowd of people that surged into Fifth Avenue like great flocks of sheep, hurrying, bustling, and jostling in an effort to get every way at once
”Wasn't it perfectly grand?” cried Mary