[The Master of the Shell by Talbot Baines Reed]@TWC D-Link bookThe Master of the Shell CHAPTER ELEVEN 19/22
When you're about four feet higher than you are you'll be able to do it.
Now could the prisoner reach up to it ?" "No, no more could you, with your boots and three-and-sixpenny Sunday tile on!" "Order in the court! Really, your lordship, your lordship ought to sit on this chap.
Perhaps your lordship's friend on your lordship's right would kindly give him a hundred lines when next he comes across him. Now, Mr Baron, and Squire, and Knight of the Shire, and all the rest of it, I want to know if there's any chap in our house--I mean the boiler- shop--could reach up there? Mind your eye, now!" "Ainger could by jumping." "I didn't ask you anything about jumping, you duffer! How tall would a chap need to be to reach up there ?" "About double your measure--over six foot." "There you are! Now is there any chap in our boiler-shop over six feet ?" "No." "I knew you'd say that.
Think again.
What about the foreman ?" and he gave a side inclination of his head towards the unconscious Railsford. "Oh, him! Yes, _he's_ over six foot." "Go down two places, for saying _him_ instead of _he_.
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