George was for looking at it and passing on, as is his way with statues, but we insisted on his pulling up and viewing the thing conscientiously.

We walked him round that statue four times, and showed it to him from every possible point of view.

I think, on the whole, we rather bored him with the thing, but our object was to impress it upon him.

We told him the history of the man who rode upon the horse, the name of the artist who had made the statue, how much it weighed, how much it measured.

We worked that statue into his system.