I, as a stranger, was naturally at a disadvantage.

The way I rolled and staggered about that platform, clutching wildly now at this man and now at that, must have been really comic.

I don't say it was high-class humour, but it would have amused most people.

Those Germans seemed to see no fun in it whatever--just seemed anxious, that was all.

There was one man, a little man, who stood with his back against the brake; I fell against him five times, I counted them.