Some people may think that an all-rounder is an all-rounder, and that if one is careful to get an all-rounder one has done all that is necessary.

But so thought not Macassar Jones.

Some men wear collars of two plies of linen, some men of three; but Macassar Jones wore collars of four plies.

Some men--some sensual, self-indulgent men--appear to think that the collar should be made for the neck; but Macassar Jones knew better.

He, who never spared him self when the cause was good, he knew that the neck had been made for the collar--it was at any rate evident that such was the case with his own.