To us at “Snookers”

Madras Weekly Mail, Thursday 19 June 1902

The ladies called him “Admiral,” because, as they told him, he deserved to be one; while he was frequently alluded to as “the Merry Old Soul;” in allusion to his namesake of nursery-rhyme fame, and because he was one. He answered to every name with the same good-natured indifference with which he dropped his annas* to us at “Snookers,” and picked ours up at “Nap,” and “Bridge.”»

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*annas – a former monetary unit of India and Pakistan, equal to one sixteenth of a rupee.