DAN GODFREY in undress uniform, playing before Sir
JOSEPH SAVORY, Bart.; and some charters under a glass case.
_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 evidence_.
_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.
_Q._ Did you go anywhere else?
_A._ The entertainments I attended were so numerous that it is
impossible to remember a tithe of them.
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