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There was that furious battle in the Market Place when the Town Hall was nearly set on fire and a policeman had his arm broken.
These are historic occasions; on the other hand the fateful date has passed, often enough, without the merest flinging of a squib or friendly appropriation of the genial policeman's helmet.
No one can say, no one knows, whether there will be riot to-night or no.
Most of the young gentlemen now parading the K.P.and Petty Cury would undoubtedly prefer that there should be a riot.

For one thing there has been no riot during the last five or six years--no one "up" just now has had any experience of such a thing, and it would be beyond question delightful to taste the excitement of it.

But, on the other hand, there is all the difficulty of getting under way.