With a blow of my fist I felled him, and breaking through the rest of them before they comprehended what I was about, I took to my heels.
Then ensued a hue and cry the like of which Thames Street had not often witnessed.

The soldiers, encumbered as they were with their harness, could only shout and raise the town.

Others, more fleet, pressed me hard; others, coming to meet the uproar, hustled me, and struck me at, and tripped me as I went by.

But I had not wrestled and played football in Finsbury Fields for naught.

At length the crowd became so great, all running one way, that not a man knew why he ran, or what it was all about.