Most of the units had their own drum corps which kept up a steady (Moo, a8 they marched along step. Each group of ladies was led a drum-major (female gender) who did a Kind of cake-walk and performed "marvellous "evolutions with her drum stick. Whenever the procession came to a halt, the ladies went through a series of military evolutions in the middle of the Street. Il beat our own Lord Mayor's show hollow. 1 watched it all with open mouth in utter amazement; it struck me as one of the most comical sights I had ever seen.
"These feelings of mine were, however, not shared by the ' other spectators who watched the parade with tht most serious faces and appeared to be completely spell-bound by its amazing beauty. A friendly citizen who. proudly explained all the finer points of the parade expressed the opinion that it was one of the finest shows ever put on In that lly. "Very colourful," said the. "Why, it must have taken them months of hard drilling'
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