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“24 FAVORITES Or, An Idol Gets Tarnished While Someone Surprising Takes a Shine to Gustav When the time came to return to the Court of Honor for the next round of the contest, we found Major Bacon and His Hoosier One Hundred tooting out Sousafied favorites for a throng twice as large as the one that had packed in around the gazebo the day before. Gustav stopped at the edge of the crowd, pausing to work up his nerve before wading on into it.
“Wouldn’t you know,” he grumbled. “A man gets killed, and out come the buzzards.”
We were attired as we had been the day before—him in rough work clothes, me in a suit, both of us topped with Stetsons—and enough folks recognized us to draw a steady stream of back-pats and go-get-’ems as we made our way toward the bandstand. Old Red endured the attention with obvious uneasiness, body rigid, face twitchy, eyes ever darting this way and that.
“Relax, Brother,” I told him. “Folks are just showin’ their support. I know it’s not in you to smile, but could... you at least look like you ain’t about to bite ’em?”MoreLess
“Wouldn’t you know,” he grumbled. “A man gets killed, and out come the buzzards.”
We were attired as we had been the day before—him in rough work clothes, me in a suit, both of us topped with Stetsons—and enough folks recognized us to draw a steady stream of back-pats and go-get-’ems as we made our way toward the bandstand. Old Red endured the attention with obvious uneasiness, body rigid, face twitchy, eyes ever darting this way and that.
“Relax, Brother,” I told him. “Folks are just showin’ their support. I know it’s not in you to smile, but could... you at least look like you ain’t about to bite ’em?”MoreLess
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