Q. Was that all?
A. Well, I heard some harps, and then of course there were the Lord Mayor's trumpeters.
Q. Did you get your hat and coat in comfort?
A. In great comfort—after I had fought like a wild beast with other wild beasts for an hour and a half to get up to the place of distribution.
Q. Was this part of the programme badly managed?
A. It was not managed at all. The City Authorities had not even had the sense to put the numbers available at each counter en évidence.
Q. Did you derive any linguistic learning from this struggle?
A. Certainly. I heard bad language in sixteen different tongues.
Q. And what (as a connoisseur) did you think of the oaths?
A. That none were comparable to that English expletive which is equally suggestive of a barrier in a river, the mother of a lamb, and the observations of an angry man.