This detachment, the priceless possession of the Second assistant deputy flag-watcher, indi-_ ates profound satisfaction with is job, Unless one has a flair for flag-watching, one will be bound to show signs of anxiety when automobiles, proceeding at' reckless rates of speed, pass. 80 close that their wind raises the flaps of one's trousers. Hence in of the theory that the second assistant deputy has been uninflue sed by social unrest or' discontent" a corollary, that the best job in town. in other cities have their duties to perform: the second assistant deputy has one duty only, one flag to ware hasan opening for grumbling it is that he must stand while watching it. But he is safe. He has the whole majesty of the French Municipal "Council to protect him. Should he be run over, he will be compensated and his oppressor prosecuted. His symbol, his red flag, is his. insurance. "Which {s, by the way, @ curious inversion—that a yed flag in the hands of a student can only mean disruption and chaos, while in the hands of the second fant deputy, it stands for law and order.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.