snap-crackers

Updated: June 9, 2025

So it was on the day of which this truthful chronicle treats. Court Street, at ten, ante-meridian, was banked with eager faces. Band music, muffled and mellow, away off somewhere where the parade was forming! Small boys whiling away the tedium of waiting with snap-crackers.

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