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Most of the procession has reached the meadows by now. A marvelous smell of cooking goes forth from the tents of the provisioners. The faces of small children are amiably sticky; in the beard of a man, a couple of crumbs of rich pastry are entangled. The youths and girls have mounted their horses and are beginning to group around the starting line of the course. A child of nine or ten sits at the edge of the crowd, alone, playing a wooden flute. His dark eyes are wholly rapt in the magic of the tune. He finishes and slowly lowers his hands holding the wooden flute. As if that little silence were the signal, all at once a trumpet sounds from the pavilion near the starting line. The horses rear on their slender legs, and some of them neigh in answer. The young riders stroke the horses’ necks and soothe them. They begin to form in ranks along the starting line. The Festival of Summer has begun. 05 10 provisioner amiably beard crumb entangle rapt pavilion rear slender neigh soothe New Words Exploring Dilemmas Through Literature 141