Reddy, and the other the young insurance agent whose
acquaintance Sam had made at the hotel.
"It's going to be a great show," said the former. "I wish I was spry
enough to parade too. It's going to be splendid, but it won't come up
to the time we had when I came back from the war. They've kept them
four boys drunk three days for nothing, but we was drunk a month."
"They've sobered them down for this evening, I believe," said the young
man.
"They've done their best," said Reddy, "and I think they'll go through
with it all right. It's a great time for them, but they'll have their
pension days all the rest of their lives to remind them of it, four
times a year."
"Who are going to take part in the procession?" asked Cleary.
"They're going to have all the military companies and patriotic
societies of these parts," answered Reddy, "and then the firemen too of
course; but they won't amount to much, for most of them are in the
societies, and they'd rather turn out in them."
"What societies are there?" said Cleary.
"Oh, there's the Grandsons of the Revolution and the Genuine Grandsons
of the Revolution, and the Daughters of Revolutionary Camp-Followers
and the Genuine Daughters, and then the Male Descendants of Second
Cousins of Heroes, and the Genuine Male Descendants, and the
Connections by Marriage of Colonial Tax-Collectors, and then the
Genuine Connections, and a lot of others I can't remember.
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