I looked at my watch and groaned. One minute gone.
"I must keep calm," I said and in a bold hand I wrote Napoleon. Then after a moment's thought, I added Nitro-glycerine, and Nats.
"This is splendid," I told myself. "Nottingham, Nobody and Noon. That makes six."
At six I stuck for two minutes. I did worse than that in fact; for I suddenly remembered that gnats were spelt with a G. However, I decided to leave them, in case nobody else remembered. And on the fourth minute I added Non-sequitur.
"Time!" said somebody.
"Just a moment," said everybody. They wrote down another word or two (which isn't fair), and then began to add up. "I've got thirty," said one.
"Thirty-two."
"Twenty-five."
"Good Heavens," I said, "I've only got seven."
There was a shout of laughter.