The coronation was a people's holiday, and ample provision was made for every class to partake in the festivities. When the banquet was over the King and Queen passed on to the balcony of the palace to look down upon the general rejoicings. A free dinner was given to the populace, and wine ran like water from a fountain, "red wine on the right side and on the left white, five hogsheads of each, of which all drank who would". In the courtyard an ox had been roasted whole, and not an ox only, for it was stuffed with "three wethers, five lambs, eight pigs, ten geese, twenty brace of duck, and fifty-eight brace of old (_sic_) hens". The roasted ox reposed upon a carriage painted red, and its horns were gilt. "The moment their Majesties appeared on the balcony," continues the chronicle, "the fountain of wine was set running, and the ox was wheeled forward, pulled by eighteen sailors in white breeches and jackets, with sashes of red, and wreaths upon their heads. On either side of the ox-carriage more sailors walked, similarly attired, and carried baskets of bread. The Quarter-master-Sergeant then ascended the ox-carriage and cried in a loud voice: 'The roast ox will now be given away!' and he threw to the crowd a number of silver pieces. With shouts of delight the people rushed forward and scrambled for money, food and wine. The feasting and revelry that followed occupied a countless number of the poor all that evening and the greater part of the night, so delighted were they. Their Majesties took great pleasure in watching the tumult from the balcony of the Christiansborg." CHAPTER VIII. AT THE COURT OF DENMARK. 1767-1768.