We were not to-day quite as much favoured as usual by the weather on Armistice Day. It was inclined to be showery though it might have been wore in London, We eelebrated it with even more than normal and sympathetic re-The crowds were very Jarge though T have sen them larger—this no doubt was due to the damp weather. The solemn two niinutes was very strictly observed a will always find a very finest things ever included in a Lord Mayor's Show, Half a dozen stalwart devil-may-care-looking "road: men" came swaggering by fret; then after the "human eny views" came a dainty lady in a Sedan chair, "Now isn't that sweet" cried the women. "IIum, couldn't catch a train in that" the men retorted. Pickwick and his friends made a jolly party on the top of a lumbering old London and Rochester stage coach, but it was buxom Mrs. Sairey Gamp silly "swigging" from long necked bottle in the dim interior of a growler who "brought down the house." The crowds saw tremendous humour in the contrasted "ancient" and modern cycles and motor cars, and they cheered to the echo a pioneer cycling woman in her bloomers, who was fol-Jowed by an up to date pillion girl wearing a beret at the jauntiest of angles. There were cheerg, too, when came the seaplane in which Sir Alan Cobham flew to Austral and back, London's fire fighting, appliances, ranging from the leather buckets of 200 years ago to the most modera motor engines, formed a remarkably interesting feature of the show. This coction was headed by one belonging to the Leatherhead Urban District Council and named Margaret Blades, after the new Lady Mayoress. The loudest cheers of the day were reserved, of course, for the now Lord Maj Sir G. Rowland Blades, x.P., who is a cricketer and a true sportsman in that he is a lover of all sports, Im his ermine and scarlet he came riding in the groat gold coach, which Jooked, with the sunlight gleaming on it, more brightly golden than it has appeared for years; and the new Lord Mayor emiled all the way along.
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