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Ed Collins, the leader of the Riverdale Cornet Band, was much amused when the four children -- two Darings and two Randolphs -- came to him in breathless excitement and wanted to hire his band to parade with the Marching Club on Saturday afternoon. Ed kept a tailor shop and was a good-natured, easy-going fellow who was fond of children and liked to humor them, but this proposition seemed so absurd that he answered with a smile:
"Bands cost money. The boys won't tramp the streets for nothing, you know."