So I set to work.
I think I made my first telescope about twenty years ago.

It was thirty-six inches long, and the tube was made of pasteboard.

I got the glasses from Liverpool for 4s.6d.

Captain Owens, of the ship Talacra, bought them.

He also bought for me, at a bookstall, the Greek Lexicon and the Greek New Testament, for which he paid 7s.6d.