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This last was, after all, the point; he really worked, poor young man, for acceptance, since he worked so constantly for comprehension. And how, when you came to that, COULD you know that a horse wouldn't shy at a brass-band, in a country road, because it didn't shy at a traction-engine? It might have been brought up to traction-engines without having been brought up to brass-bands.
"What sound, Sir Keith?" said he; for indeed there was nothing but the lapping of the water along the side of the yacht and a murmur of ripples along the shore. "Do you not hear it, Hamish? It is a sound as of a brass-band! a brass-band playing music as if it was in a theatre. Can you not hear it, Hamish?" "Oh, God help us! God help us!" Hamish cried. "You do not hear it, Hamish?" he said.
"The travellers, tired with their journey, washed and shaved, and dressed, and the women's hair anointed, all flagrant with oil and frantic with joy shouting, singing, and dancing to the tune of the advancing fiddles! I think I see the great prophet himself, with his brass-band in front and his body-guard around him, meeting the travellers and shaking their hands individ'ally!
He left the house the day before yesterday, without telling any of us good-bye, and he hasn't written, and I don't know what on earth has become of him." "Did he take any luggage?" "Just a small suit-case. He even packed it himself, a thing he has never done at home in his life before." This was news. The proceedings were unlike Randall, who in his goings and comings loved the domestic brass-band.
And he said, what he had planned in his head from the start, if we got Jim out all safe, was for us to run him down the river on the raft, and have adventures plumb to the mouth of the river, and then tell him about his being free, and take him back up home on a steamboat, in style, and pay him for his lost time, and write word ahead and get out all the niggers around, and have them waltz him into town with a torchlight procession and a brass-band, and then he would be a hero, and so would we.
The object of the cave is to keep the work moist, as the plaiting cannot be well done, if the palm dries out. The Monday we were there, the victory of February 5th was celebrated. The day began with music by the brass-band, from the roof of the presidencia. The band, a large one, consisted almost entirely of boys about fifteen years of age.
In the evening there were not so many lovers at the religious meetings before the classic edifice opposite the hotel, where the devotions were transacted with the help of a brass-band; but there were many youths smoking short pipes, and flitting from one preacher to another, in the half-dozen groups.
"I shouldn't mind taking in a concert like that," replied Phil. "I like good brass-band music better than anything else." "How about you, Dave?" "Suits me, if you want to go, Roger." "We could go in the car. Maybe ma and dad would go, too." Just then the bell rang for lunch, and the visitors hurried off to wash up and comb their hair.
The incessant rattle of small arms, the booming of the twelve-pounder firing on the Mill Dam, and the silvery clangor of the church-bells ringing simultaneously not to mention an ambitious brass-band that was blowing itself to pieces on a balcony were enough to drive one distracted. We amused ourselves for an hour or two, darting in and out among the crowd and setting off our crackers.
Blaze uttered a triumphant cry. "Get him, quick! Send the brass-band to bring him. Dave, you hook your spurs over the rung of a chair and watch your uncle clean this tenderfoot. If he's got class, I'll make him mayor of the town, for a good pool-shooter is all this metropolis lacks. Why, sometimes I go plumb to San Antone for a game."
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