Wigs, who were putting the Soldiers back in their Boxes
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"Those must have been spurs!" explained Smaly absently, his attention being distracted by a curious rattling noise from afar off.
"I don't know what spurs are," admitted the Mother of the Crow; "but the Chief Contractor doesn't even know what the shield is that each soldier carries to protect his face from the horns of the animals. He doesn't even know that soldiers carry knives," she added, "but has put in his soldiers' hands flowers with long stalks. He doesn't know what a helmet is, for he thought that soldiers must be a sort of bird with a plume on their heads."