"There are three instruments; an excellent transit instrument of six and a half inches' aperture, resting on its y's of solid granite.

A man don't stand much show when the end of a inch 'n' a quarter cable snaps at him like a whiplash.

Sure enough he was wearin' a 'igh collar, about three inches 'igh, I should say, all white an' shiny, straight from the lorndry.