He retracted the lower abdomen, and holding it retracted, leaned well over to the left side, contracting the muscles of the left side forcibly. He kept his legs straight all the time, his knees stiff. He revrsed to right side, and repeated twenty times - ten right, ten left. This exercise was done slowly and steadily, without jerking.
"Ah!" said Hamilton Beamish, relaxing. "Splendid for the transversalis muscle, that, converting it into a living belt which girds the loins. Have you ever given considered thought to the loins, Garroway?"
The policeman shook his head. "Not that I know of," he said indifferently. "I've seen 'em in the Bronx Zoo."
(from The Small Bachelor, by Sir Pelham Wodehouse)
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