GMMPTON ACCESMO* 



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MifCftOFT UBRABY 



JUl. 25.1938 



THE PROCESSION OF FLOWERS IN 

 COLORADO. 



SUPPOSE the little black boys who hang 

 on lamp-posts along the route of a grand 

 city procession are not the best reporters of 

 the parade. They do not know the names 

 of the officials, and they would be likely to 

 have very vague ideas as to the number of minutes it took 

 the procession to pass any given point ; but nobody in all 

 the crowd will have a more vivid impression of the trap- 

 pings of the show, of the colors and the shapes, and of 

 the tunes the bands played. I am fitted for a chronicler 

 of the procession of flowers in Colorado only as little black 

 boys are for chroniclers of Fourth of July processions, Of 

 the names of the dignitaries, and the times at which they 

 reached particular places, I am sadly ignorant ; but there 



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