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Updated: June 7, 2025
Let us find a spiteful satisfaction in the fact that long after we have entered the silent gates, the young roosters will still have to rise early and crow hungrily for corn, still will have to skirmish with other roosters for bread, and the highest pole in the roost, and that as they show up in the race of life, they will have to read, in their turn, the fatal sign-board along the track "Old roosters not wanted."
We leave the Palais-Royal through the main gate, and I observe another crowd of people before a shop, on the sign-board of which I read "At the Sign of the Civet Cat." "What is the matter here?" "Now, indeed, you are going to laugh. All these honest persons are waiting their turn to get their snuff-boxes filled." "Is there no other dealer in snuff?"
Why only head, I don't know; for the Dolphin's effigy at full length, and upside down as a Dolphin is always bound to be when artistically treated, though I suppose he is sometimes right side upward in his natural condition graced the sign-board. The sign-board chafed its rusty hooks outside the bow-window of my room, and was a shabby work.
The first of Fisbee's items was thus recorded: "It may be noted that the new sign-board of Mr. H. Miller has been put in place. We cannot but regret that Mr. Miller did not instruct the painter to confine himself to a simpler method of lettering."
"They want to be sure I'm alone," thought Desmond, and congratulated himself on having had the strength of mind to break his orders. The cart-track led up to a little bridge over a ditch. By the bridge stood a tall pole, on the top of which was a blue and gold painted sign-board inscribed, "The Dyke Inn by J. Rass." The urchin led him across the bridge and up to the door of the inn.
Besides this historic or mythic claim, it had for me the more strictly human interest of the sign-board in Dutch, renewed from the earliest time, at both its doorways, notifying its expatriated congregation that all letters and parcels would be received there for them; this somehow intimated that the refugees could not have found it spiritually much farther to extend their exile half round the world.
That would come presently it always had. We were slowing down. I opened my eyes lazily. No, we weren't stopping only going through a village. What a quaint grey village it was worth looking at if I wasn't so tired. I was on the point of drowsing off again when I caught sight of a word written on a sign-board, Domrémy. My brain cleared. I sat up with a jerk.
He expected to be addressed as "Domnule!" and was delighted when his guests took notice of his coat of arms hanging up in the guest chamber, to-wit, a black bear with three darts in its heel and enquired as to its meaning; when he would explain that that black bear with the three darts which was also painted on a sheet of lead and swung backwards and forwards in front of the house between two iron rods was not a sign-board, but his family crest.
They looked very much alike, and if it had not been for the changing numbers on the sign-board in the centre of the ring announcing that 650, 675, or 602 was now jumping, I might have thought it was 650 all the time. A high jump is not so fine a sight as a running race when the horses have got half a mile away and look like a covey of swift birds, but it is still a fine sight.
We passed slowly along the road to the east of Arras, honeycombed still with dug-outs, and gun emplacements, and past trenches and wire fields, till suddenly a mere sign-board, nothing more "Gavrelle!" shows us that we are approaching the famous Drocourt-Quéant switch of the Hindenburg line, which the Canadians and the 17th British Corps, under Sir Henry Horne, stormed and took in September of last year.
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