After them will come the blind plus their guide dogs trained to follow the white lines. Canes to be carried under the arm. They're not to make contact with the ground until all the blind are in position. A few blind men have actually been rounded up to help rehearse this procedure, but they keep blundering into their Alsatians. Many of them become entangled in the leads and nearly fall headlong in the mud.
Young dogs stray off the boardwalk or stand there looking bewildered.
Go over them again at once, two or three times. The brutes can't see a thing in this light. One of the blind men pauses in the beam of a spotlight, warming himself in its glow. His dog tugs at the lead, but the man refuses to budge. The harsh glare is reflected in his dark glasses and bounces off the tinted lenses, straight into my eyes.