sculture

Updated: May 14, 2025

"How do you earn your living?" he demanded, changing his method of attack. Bull Neck allowed his head to sink still farther into the vast bulk of his immense torso, strangely resembling, in this position, the fabled anthropophagi whose heads are reputed thus to "grow beneath their shoulders." Then throwing out his jaw he announced proudly between set teeth: "I'm a perfessor of physical sculture!"

Arthur Cheney Train - Tutt and Mr. Tutt

The jury sniggered. Mr. Tutt appeared politely puzzled. "A professor of what?" "A perfessor of physical sculture!" repeated Bull Neck with great satisfaction. "Oh! A professor of physical sculpture!" exclaimed Mr. Tutt, light breaking over his wrinkled countenance. "And what may that be?" Bull Neck looked round disgustedly at the jury as if to say: "What ignorance!"

Arthur Cheney Train - Tutt and Mr. Tutt