He was wedged in among people a foot or two taller than himself.

Now, it is not pleasant to hear all about you laughing heartily and not even catch a glimpse of what amuses them so much.
Thomas Tubbs was human, and as curious as most people.

Just as a six-footer squeezed in front of him he could not help framing, in his vexation, this wish: "'Oh, dear! I wish I were ten feet high!' "Luckless Thomas Tubbs! Never had he framed a more unfortunate wish.

On the instant he shot up from an altitude of four feet six to ten feet.
Fortunately his clothes expanded proportionally.

So, instead of being below the medium height, he was raised more than four feet above it.
"Of course, his immediate neighbors became aware of the gigantic presence, though they did not at all recognize its identity with the little tailor, Thomas Tubbs.
"At once there was a shout of terror.