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The cutthroats of the revolution spoke of applying gunpowder to public edifices. And indeed they set about fulfilling their threat by blowing up the Serratori barracks, which they had undermined, and which buried, one evening, in their ruins, the music band of the Zouaves, whilst they were engaged at a rehearsal. Fortunately the bandsmen were the only victims.
It seems that Colonel Fitz-James, who had been colonel of the regiment for some time, had babied the bandsmen, one and all, until they had quite forgotten the fact of their being enlisted men.
The boom of the drum, desolating the interruptions of the melody, made sick the heart, but with a lofty grief; and the dirge seemed to be weaving a purple pall that covered every meanness. The bandsmen were not all in black, but they all wore crape on their sleeves and their instruments were knotted with crape. They carried in their hats a black-edged card.
Hinde, "but I'm hanged if I go on carting all those instruments about the country. I found them on the side of the road where you left them, and now that I've given them back to you I'll take no further responsibility in the matter." The two sets of bandsmen were facing each other on the road. The instruments were divided between them.
Then, with the Lorelei melody lingering to the last, the sweet, sad music died away and the waltz was ended. People began to move toward the doorway. "They're going for their bite and sup," said Mrs. Crook. "See, there go the bandsmen. Shall we?" "I think not, if you don't mind," said Mrs.
The procedure was as follows: Half an hour before the daily parade, which took place at eleven o'clock outside whatever residence was serving as the Emperor's palace, General Duroc, the Grand Marshal, sent to our billet a company of Grenadiers of the Guard, with bandsmen and drummers.
Mooseheart is at once a farm, a school and a town. The boys help handle the crops and herds under the guidance of the experts who teach the classes in agriculture. For extra work in the fields the boys receive pay. They save their money to buy the tools of their trade. The bandsmen when they graduate go out with fine instruments bought with their own earnings during their school years.
When the Colonel cast the Drum-Horse of the White Hussars, there was nearly a mutiny. The officers were angry, the Regiment were furious, and the Bandsmen swore like troopers. The Drum-Horse was going to be put up to auction public auction to be bought, perhaps, by a Parsee and put into a cart!
After they had played the chorus several times, the bandsmen sang it, William's friends joining in. "Rotten verse," said Lucien Torrance, when they were through, "but it fits you, William Adolphus Turnpike our Bill." "Where did you get the band, Tommy?" asked Epstein.
Officers, sergeants, privates and bandsmen might have been cast in molds, after the style of toy soldiers. There were exceptions, of course, just as the fat man achieved distinction among the unemployed. The crimson sashes of the officers, the drum-major, with his twirling staff, the white apron of the big drummer, drew the eye.
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