The stone was uneven and broken, and the letters werestraggling and irregular, but the following fragment of an inscriptionwas clearly to be deciphered:-- [cross] B I L S T u m P S H I S.
( Dickens The Pickwick papers ) After groping about in the gallery for some time, attempting in thedim light to decipher the numbers on the different doors, he atlength appealed to a pot-boy, who happened to be pursuing his morningoccupation of gleaning for pewter.