"Yard measure" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... "measuring by eye," this was a test put to her accidentally. About the beginning of June, 1917, for lack of any better idea at the moment, I determined to teach her the use of the yard measure (the metre), and without having any definite object in view. So I fetched the yard-stick and told her the names and the meaning of the divisions three times; but she seemed unable to work up any enthusiasm for the ...
— Lola - The Thought and Speech of Animals • Henny Kindermann |
