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It was impossible for them to get at him, but Theodore, who was always stung at any display of meanness and it was certainly mean to attack the paraders when they could not retaliate stood out from the line and shook his fist at the assailant. His fellow marchers asked who their champion was, and so the name of Roosevelt and his pugnacious little figure became generally known to them.
The five helpers dashed their bewildering, blinding slush fast and far, on every face and badge that they could hit; and the pump stream hit Kenna square in the face as he yelled in wrath. The paraders were not armed for such a fight. Men that could face bullets, knives, and death, were dismayed, defeated, and routed by these baffling bucketfuls and the amazing precision of the squirting pump.
They battered in the door, and had pushed their way half thru it when the "wobblies" opened fire from inside, killing several of the paraders. Then, of course, the mob flew into a frenzy of fury.
Two minutes later they swung across the street down which the rival parade was coming, and, at the command of their keeper, the huge animals turned, facing the other body of paraders. "We're just in time! There they are!" cried Phil excitedly. "I should say so. They were going to do what you said they would, the scoundrels!" "Can you hold them till our people get by, do you think?"
Finally it grew so late that some of the paraders said they would have to be going home pretty soon. And then Billy Woodchuck remarked that he didn't believe Peter Mink had the least idea what they were waiting for. "I think we ought to tell him," Billy said. So Jimmy Rabbit told Peter what it was. "I don't know what it means," said Peter. "Well say it, anyhow!" Jimmy Rabbit ordered.
She's bringing some men paraders too." Men paraders! Now I could smile. I had earned the right, I had been broad. But after all, there are limits. I could see those chaps parading with women. I knew them, I had seen them before, for Sue had often brought them here. I enjoyed myself immensely till Eleanore shot another bolt. "Smile on, funny one," she said. "You'll be in line yourself in a year."
And soon he began to shout. Still no one came. And Peter began to wish that he hadn't tried to play a trick on the paraders. For he saw that he was in something very like a trap. In fact, it was a trap, which Johnnie Green had set. But Peter didn't know that. If he had, he would have been even more worried than he was.
On the contrary, we know that the adornment of the person has been attended to by the bravest men in all ages and in all armies; and we know further, that it does produce a powerful effect on the morale of a corps. We intend to advocate the use of frequent but consistent ornament for our soldiers, but we do not wish to turn then into mere paraders.
The members of the team finally escaped from those who wished to honor them and made their way to the locker building where they sat and talked for a few minutes, regained their breath, rubbed their bruises and looked each other over. Outside they could hear the howling of the paraders and the booming of the bass drum as a line was being formed to march from the field to the school.
Were I a physician, I'd get all the trade to myself: for Malmsey, and Cyprus, and the generous product of the Cape, a little disguised, should be my principal doses: as these would create new spirits, how would the revived patient covet the physic, and adore the doctor! Give all the paraders of the faculty whom thou knowest this hint. There could but one inconvenience arise from it.
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