A Study in Scarlet (1933)

Billy Bevan: Will Swallow

Quotes 

• Thompson - Innkeeper : Ah, these is getting worser and worser.

  Will Swallow : All you do is hope they don't get more worser before they'll get less worser.

  Thompson - Innkeeper : Same as I say.

• Sherlock Holmes : How far is the Grange from here?

  Will Swallow : Some will tell you four miles and some will tell you five. But I say it's more than four and less than five.

• Will Swallow : You can't make English gentry out of the heathen Chinese, no how. Not in these parts.

• Will Swallow : Many a good licking young Master Robin got for chucking stones at me, sir!

• Will Swallow : Dolly ran all the way to fetch Dr. Smallwood, and she and Smallwood nigh burst a blood vessel trying to get to him. And when they found him, he wasn't there.

• Will Swallow : An old gentleman? Wearing a cape? Stoops a bit? Big in the belly?

  Sherlock Holmes : You've seen him?

  Will Swallow : Have I seen him? Yes, sir. And Dolly at the Grange seen him and Dr. Smallwood ought to have seen him but he never set eyes on him.