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The cave people soon began to come in from all the caves round about in the hill country. They came in little crowds, laughing and talking very loud. They were happy, for there was plenty to eat and somebody to eat with. As they came up, they stood for a long time looking at the mammoth and talking about how big he was.
Crowds of people gathered, and after viewing the pictures of the living wonders on the canvas, and listening to the glowing description given of the "GREATEST OF LIVING CURIOSITIES," they began pouring in and kept it up till the tent was packed full.
Soon from the black funnels of the steamers clouds of smoke began to pour, and in the rigging of the sail frigates were crowds of nimble sailors. The commands "All ready! Let fall!" rang sharply over the water from the ships. Broad sheets of snowy canvas appeared where before were but ropes and spars, and in a moment the whole squadron was under way.
At the same time the camp began to swarm with men, and crowds of tiny figures were observed clambering on to the entrenchments and gun emplacements, eagerly watching the development of the fight. The cavalry had by this time approached to within 1,000 yards of the zeriba, and the Arab artillery began to fire occasional round shot and clumsily fused shells.
"What?" almost screamed Baker, "only three o'clock?" They favored each other with a cold, hard look and each seized his own oars again. So they rowed through the bitter morning hours. Leavenworth and other towns were saluted, crowds always cheering on the banks, and the following afternoon, almost frozen, they landed at Kansas City, where for two miles the bank was a solid mass of humanity.
Sardotopolis grew frightened and walked fast. As she came near her home Mrs. Sardotopolis was leaning over the bundle in her arms, crying, "Joe! Joe! Do you hear, Joe?" The streets swarmed with the early evening crowds of men and women going home. In the cars the people stood packed as if they were sardines. A few feet from her door beside the candy and notion store Mrs. Sardotopolis stopped.
In my sleep I heard a bell ring outside as plaintively as though shedding bitter tears, and the lay brother calling out several times: "Lord Jesus Christ, Son of God, have mercy upon us! Come to mass!" When I woke up my companion was not in the room. It was sunny and there was a murmur of the crowds through the window.
Ruskin came to tell his age that art was doing nothing toward making the world better that, instead of lifting the heart toward God, and enlarging the field of human sympathy, it was only ministering to the vanity of men that nature was dishonored that men might win the applause of vulgar crowds by falsehood and trickery.
This is the one day in the year when Jimmy Rand polishes his grandfather's shoes with scrupulous care and without demanding the usual nickel. He takes his payment in watching the blue army suit swaying on the line under the tall poplars and in hearing the crowds on Decoration Day shout themselves hoarse for old Major Rand.
Crowds of persons assembled around the house to hear the mysterious noises; and the bricks were observed to detach themselves from the wall and fall into the streets upon the heads of those who had not said their paternoster before they came out in the morning.
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