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He actually had to take
them around the city in such a way that they were not even obliged to
submit to a glimpse of the remotest outskirts of the Bronx.
From Washington came an amazing company of foreign ladies and
gentlemen, ranging from the most exalted Europeans to the lowliest of
the yellow races. They came with gold all over them; they tinkled
with the clash of a million cymbals. The President of the United
States almost came. Having no spangles of his own, he delegated a
Major-General and a Rear-Admiral to represent Old Glory, and no doubt
sulked in the White House because a parsimonious nation refuses to
buy braid and buttons for its chief executive.
Any one who has seen a gentleman in braid, buttons and spangles will
understand how impossible it is to describe him. One might enumerate
the buttons and the spangles and even locate them precisely upon his
person, but no mortal intellect can expand sufficiently to cope with
an undertaking that would try even the powers of Him who created the
contents of those wellstuffed uniforms.


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