Show WS HIS FIRST SIGHT OF BANDS crowd proved to be very human when cripple long blind was wa whetted wheeled all his big life ke he had been lame nearly all his ufa life he had been blind nut but always he be could hear bear and the thing ng I 1 he liked beat to hear bear was mar martial bial music by the band he heard it seldom tho the rome home for incurables was as on a side street out ut the way of bands the operation that ze i catered restored his sight bight was followed shortly by a Us big parade at last said he 1 I shall see the fellows that play the band the line of march was twenty y blocks away but to a strong armed orderly who was used to wheeling a reclining chair twenty blocks was nothing the policeman on the edge of the crow was tar far more formidable you cant take that boy in there he be said crush the lle life out out ot of him we cant do anything wath a crowd like this on parade days a mob mb but very tory human said the orderly then he told the story of the newly opened eyes oh well said the policeman he stepped back others also stepped back policemen and members of the mob right up the curb they went the boy and the orderly A few who had held their places since sun up grumbled a little but the eager look of the boy who had never seen a uniform conquered and they made way then the bands cabrae dozens ot of them and every bandsman seemed to play his best for the boy in the chair it was splendid so splendid that the boy and the orderly and the mob laughed and cried together truly the mob was very human |