No doubt the noise was great.

I heard it down below, and I have every reason to believe it was heard clear across the Esplanade as far as the band-stand.

Old father Elliot had a great stock of words and could shout--and didn't mind who he shouted at either.

He would have shouted at the Viceroy himself.

As he used to tell me: "I am as high as I can get; my pension is safe.