As I ssid Inst week, the price atked for seats to view the procession was fabulous, so I determined to se what I could from the read, and fortunately I had reason to congratulate inyaelf on my decision as few could have so good a view as I had. Throush the evurtesy of Sir Edward Bradford I was granted a Press pass along the fine of route, and when I showed it toa Police inspector he at once asked me where Tshould prefer tobe. I chose the small pathway which runs between the two large gates at Hyde Park Comer, inside the Park, as this I knew was specially reveryed, and here in company with some dozen other favoured ind: vidwels L waited, listening for the first of the 81 guns which was to announce the departure of the sad cortéze from Victoria Stitiom. I could hardly believe that I had been standing there an hour when the awesome sound rent the air, so quickly had the time passed—x policemen, whom the inspector had told to look after me and see that I had a good place, had plenty to say, He told me that the Park gates had remained open all night, for the first time since the Jubilee, and that when he came on duty at 6 o'clock there were hundreds there patiently waiting, and that he had been told that quite hundred must have slept in the Park all i', As the thermometer at two istered two degrees below freezing point this implied a loyalty which bordered on foolhardiness, though I believe no deaths from exposure were recorded.
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