For Londoners there is no need describe the Lord Mayor's Show. For others we may say that it is a procession which is to be seen every 9th of November, when the New Lord Mayor takes office, and proceeds, attended by the Aldermen, Sheriffs, and' Common Councilmen, with bands of music, and with banners' flying of all the City' Guilds, to the Exchequer Court to be sworn in. Then, at night, follows the Lord Mayor's annual banquet, the Guildhall—a mighty deed of drink: ing and feeding.
Every year since 1501 have these gustatory festivities been held there—about 400 of them altogether.
What beasts ai che field and birds of the have gone to the manufacture of that ug series of official feasts. Alas! for Time's fatal touch. They have passed into Limbo, and so have most of the men that ate them. Solemn and instructive thought!
And they ran into money withal. 'The cost of the Lord Mayor's Show, dinner included, is about £3,500, of which his lordship' pays half and each sheriff one-fourth. Surely the Lord Mayor hath ways to spend his £10,000 a year oven twice the salary of the Prime Minister.
Not all the people who march -in the Lord Mayor's procession' get.a- chance ta
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