eleven o'clock
It is always pleasant to stand at the reading-room window and watch the very busy and strenuous traffic of this street . As a view point on that particular morning the window was as good as possible . Donegal Place is the chief and most obvious way from the northern and eastern parts of the city to the place where the meeting was to be held . Between eleven o'clock and twelve the volunteers began to appear in considerable numbers . I saw at once that I had been wrong in supposing that they meant to spend the day in bed . One company after another came up Royal Avenue or swung round the corner from High Street , and marched before my eyes along Donegal Place towards the scene of the meeting . Small bodies of police appeared here and there , heading in the same direction .