Messrs Parkes and Cobb being used to this style of conversation, replied without difficulty that to be sure Solomon was very late, and they wondered what had happened to detain him.
'He an't blown away, I suppose,' said Parkes.

'It's enough to carry a man of his figure off his legs, and easy too.

Do you hear it?
It blows great guns, indeed.

There'll be many a crash in the Forest to-night, I reckon, and many a broken branch upon the ground to-morrow.' 'It won't break anything in the Maypole, I take it, sir,' returned old John.

'Let it try.