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152wing? Is it wrong for Jayakody to hope that the horse may buck and throw the SGDI off?About now bodies arrive and try to remove petrol pumps, and we watch transfixed as if, in slow motion, one beautiful Esso globe falls off and crashes onto the parade ground.And it%u2019s time to %u201cMarch on the Queen%u2019s Colour!%u201d, But somehow they are marching on the %u201cA%u201d Sqn colour instead, and there%u2019s a violinist playing some dirge or lament from the tower. The %u201cA%u201d Sqn colour party doesn%u2019t stop, but marches straight up the College steps and disappears. Some tittering in the ranks? Faces cracked into a smile? Surely not! The College Warrant Officer, Mr Garbutt decides it%u2019s high time he asserts his full authority over the parade. He shoutsout, a shade optimistically: %u201cOK, JOKE'S OVER, JOKE'S OVER.\At which point there%u2019s a buzzing noise in the distance, as,unseen by him, a Tiger Moth appears over the Junior Cadets%u2019 Mess and flies very low, straight towards us and away over the College, banking and having to climb to avoid the tower.Then calm resumes, the band plays up, and the Queen%u2019s colour is marched on by the correct colour party. (This, we understand, does not involve %u201cA%u201d Squadron, who have declared %u201cWe wuz robbed%u201d).Then it%u2019s time for the General Salute: amazingly, despite the hangovers, all Senior Flight Cadets on the front row