“You could if you wiped your eyes.”
“You're crying yourself,” declared Cutty.
“Blinking jackass! Got anybody out there?”
“All of 'em.”
“I get you, old son of a gun! No flesh and blood, but they're ours all the same. Couple of old fools; huh?”
“Sure pop! What right have two old codgers got here, anyhow? What brought you out?”
“What brought you?”
“Same thing.”
“Damn it! If I could only see something!”
Cutty put his hands upon the shoulders of this chance acquaintance and propelled him toward the curb. There were cries of protest, curses, catcalls, but Cutty bored on ahead until he got his man where he could see the tin hats, the bayonets, and the colours; and thus they stood for a full hour. Each time the flag went by the little man yanked off his derby and turned truculently to see that Cutty did the same.