Make ten men grind what fifty used, you put forty workmen's wages in your pocket." "That's tall talk." "Not an inch taller than the truth." Mr.Bolt studied the drawings, and, from obstreperous, became quite quiet and absorbed.

Presently he asked Henry to change places with him; and, on this being complied with, he asked the meek woman to read him Henry's figures, slowly.

She stared, but complied.

Mr.Bolt pondered the figures, and examined the drawings again.

He then put a number of questions to Henry, some of them very shrewd; and, at last, got so interested in the affair that he would talk of nothing else.
As the train slackened for Birmingham, he said to Henry, "I'm no great scholar; I like to see things in the body.