. Stories for the household . GEANDFATHEK TELLING ABOUT IT. welcome, and the chest of the workmens guild, and their shirt-sleeveswere adorned with red and white ribbons ; the elder ones carried drawnswords, each with a lemon stuck on its point. There was a full bandof music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the bird,as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent at the top, and allmanner of dingle-dangles hanging to it, a perfect Turkish clatter of stick was lifted high in the air, and swung up and down till itjingled again, and quite dazzled ones eyes when the
. Stories for the household . GEANDFATHEK TELLING ABOUT IT. welcome, and the chest of the workmens guild, and their shirt-sleeveswere adorned with red and white ribbons ; the elder ones carried drawnswords, each with a lemon stuck on its point. There was a full bandof music, and the most splendid of all the instruments was the bird,as grandfather called the big stick with the crescent at the top, and allmanner of dingle-dangles hanging to it, a perfect Turkish clatter of stick was lifted high in the air, and swung up and down till itjingled again, and quite dazzled ones eyes when the sun shone on allits glory of gold, and silver, and HOW GRAXDFATHEE LOOKED WHEN A BOY. In front of the procession ran the Harlequin, dressed in clothes madeof all kinds of coloured patches artfully sewn together, with a blackface, and bells on his head like a sledge horse: he beat the people withhis bat, which made a great clattering without hurting them, and thepeople would crowd together and fall back, only to advance again the 8x6 Stories Jor the Household. next moment. Little boys and girls fell over their own toes into thegutter, old women dispensed digs with their elbows, and looked sour,and took snuff. One laughed, another chatted; the people throngedthe windows and door-steps, and even all the roofs. The sun shone;and although they had a little rain too, that was good for the farmer;and when they got wetted thoroughly, they only thought what a blessingit was for the country. And what stories grandpapa could tell! As a little boy he had seenall these fine doings in their greatest pomp. The oldest of the policemenused to make a s
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