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THE STORM SHIFTS THE SIGN-BOARDS

IN the old days, when grandfather was quite a little boy and wore red trousers and a red jacket, a scarf around his waist and a feather in his cap (for that was the way in which little boys were dressed in the days of his childhood when they wore their best clothes)—at that time so many things were different from what they are now. There were often grand sights in the streets which we do not see, for they have all been done

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