One hundred and
twenty-five
Marshals.
{The Mass. Hort. Improvement Society,
en masse, with several full bands of
music, on "seedling" accompaniments, etc.
Banner.
Motto: "Cuss the Concord Grape."
}Twenty-five
hundred and one
gold-medal
seekers.
No
Aids.
{The man who voluntarily gave up his office under the
National government, solus, on horseback, with
Banner.—Motto: "Few die, and none resign."
}No
friends.
The defunct
New England
Hen Society.
{"The Young 'Un,"
in his own barouche, drawn by four "superb
dapple-grey Shanghaes."
}His
vanquished
Competitors.
Banner.—Motto:
"Who's afraid?"
}Music.{Banner.—Motto:
"Not this child!"
Police.{Hen Men who had Mistaken their Calling,
twenty-eight deep, in four hundred sections.
}Police.
Aids,
24 Constables.
{Grain Men, with their bills,
in seventy sections,
sixty-four deep.
}Aids,
All in a row.

Band, playing "Hope told a flattering tale."

Tree-venders
and
Horticulturists,
{The great-grandson of the man who set
out an orchard of dwarf Pear-trees
(in a barouche). He was 102 years
old, and believed he should see fruit on
those same trees "next season"!
}with thumbs
on their
noses.

Pall Bearers. [ HIS COFFIN, behind. ] Heirs to his estate.

Aids,
12 Respectable
Physicians.
{Believers that Cochituate Water is
WHOLESOME (in a chaise).
}Aids,
Board of
Commissioners.
15 Marshals.{Chicken Fanciers who didn't buy their eggs of
me, and who expected they would hatch!
(Four thousand strong.)
}15 Marshals.