Read "Too Dearly Bought" by Agnes Giberne online for free on Textopian. Full text with search, annotations, highlights, and AI-powered reading aids.
THE procession was coming down Pleasant Lane!
A great number of noisy little boys came trooping on ahead, with shrill cries, to announce this important fact. Hardly one among them understood exactly what the procession was about; but flags and banners are the delight of a boy's heart. Not seldom this particular form of affection for coloured bunting lasts on into manhood.