To get a match from old Trimmer you would have had to give him chloroform.

It was said that he would not look at his watch to see what time it was for fear of wearing it out, and that he looked over the top of his spectacles to save the lenses.

At all events he was so economical that he seldom wasted any words, and the words that he did waste were not worth saving; they were not very nice words..