He was an elderly man with a grey moustache, and was dressed, in open defiance of the law, in a military costume or uniform.
"He turned round towards us and rose from his knees.
"'I'm dashed if I can make the rotten thing go round,' he said.
"'It's all right, General,' said the Bishop.

'I have brought a plumber.' "For the next few minutes my professional interest absorbed all my faculties.

I laid out my instruments upon a board, tapped the boiler with a small hammer, tested the feed-tube, and in a few moments had made what I was convinced was a correct diagnosis of the trouble.
"But here I encountered the greatest professional dilemma in which I have ever been placed.

There was nothing wrong with the boiler at all.
It connected, as I ascertained at once by a thermo-dynamic valvular test, with the furnace (in fact, I could see it did), and the furnace quite evidently had been allowed to go out.
"What was I to do?
If I told them this, I broke every professional rule of our union.

If the thing became known I should probably be disbarred and lose my overalls for it.