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As it ran, and Tom watched, Uncle Richard carefully held the short arm of the syphon, guiding it till the sediment at the bottom of the pan was nearly reached, when he quickly withdrew it, and the basin was then placed beside the pan. "There, Tom," said Uncle Richard, "that's our sixty-minute emery." "But I thought you said you wanted it very fine. You've only washed it."
Now, Tom, we want to get our finest polishing emery out of that mixture, and it will take an hour to form sixty-minute emery, the opticians call it; so while it is preparing, we'll go and have another turn at the speculum."
"When my husband," said Octavia, with a shy slurring of the word, "died three months ago I thought I had a reasonable amount of the world's goods. His lawyer exploded that theory in a sixty-minute fully illustrated lecture. I took to the sheep as a last resort.
"There!" cried Uncle Richard; "now, going backwards, we have six different grades of material, beginning with the coarse, and going up to the fine sixty-minute powder or paste for polishing, for these things have to be made exquisitely fine."
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