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Question
Answer the following question.
“We have orders to let them shout”.What is the policeman referring to?
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Solution
When Soapy began to shout as if he was drunk, the cop turned his back to him and said to a man standing near that the person shouting was one of the college boys and he would not hurt anything. He said that the police had orders to let them shout.
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