(Prolonged applause.  Venetian masts, MAYPOLES and festal arches spring
up.  A streamer bearing the legends Cead Mile Failte and Mah Ttob Melek
Israel spans the street.  All the windows are thronged with sightseers,
chiefly ladies.  Along the route the regiments of the royal Dublin
fusiliers, the king’s own Scottish BORDERERS, the Cameron HIGHLANDERS and
the Welsh fusiliers standing to attention, keep back the crowd.  Boys from
high school are perched on the lampposts, telegraph poles, WINDOWSILLS,
cornices, gutters, CHIMNEYPOTS, railings, RAINSPOUTS, whistling and
cheering the pillar of the cloud appears.  A Fife and drum band is heard
in the distance playing the Kol NIDRE.  The beaters approach with imperial
Eagles hoisted, trailing banners and waving oriental palms. The
chryselephantine papal standard rises high, surrounded by PENNONS of the
civic flag.  The van of the procession appears headed by John Howard
Parnell, city marshal, in A chessboard tabard, the Athlone POURSUIVANT
and Ulster king of arms. They are followed by the right honourable Joseph
Hutchinson, lord mayor of Dublin, his lordship the lord mayor of cork,
their worships the mayors of Limerick, Galway, Sligo and Waterford,
Twentyeight irish representative peers, SIRDARS, GRANDEES and MAHARAJAHS
bearing the cloth of estate, the Dublin Metropolitan fire brigade, the
chapter of the saints of finance in their plutocratic order of
precedence, the bishop of down and Connor, his eminence Michael cardinal