A black funnel, you say ?" "No, sir.

Black with a white band." "Ah, of course.

It was the sides which were black.

Good-morning, Mrs.
Smith .-- There is a boatman here with a wherry, Watson.

We shall take it and cross the river.
"The main thing with people of that sort," said Holmes, as we sat in the sheets of the wherry, "is never to let them think that their information can be of the slightest importance to you.