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Pooh! they’re human beings same as what we are.



But they’ve got their eye on us like a couple of bulldogs. Hi! what are you staring at?



I’ve come across that fat one before. He ran me in once. For being disorderly, so he said.



Yes, he’s a bad ’un. I know him from the demonstrations.



But the other one isn’t, though. He only keeps saying: “Now then, people, don’t be silly.”



They’re keeping watch on the platform.



They’ve got enough flags here. I suppose it’s celebrations again for somebody who’s dead.



They wouldn’t celebrate us like that.



Nobody cares a rap about a poor man. But these aren’t celebrations for somebody who’s dead.



What are they for, then?