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Updated: May 2, 2025
I'll ask about the weather." Howard dictated to the man at the London wire: "Roberts, London. How is the weather? Howard." In less than ten minutes the cable-man handed Howard a typewritten slip reading: "News-Record, New York, Howard: Thermometer 97 our office now. Promises hottest day yet. Roberts." "I never before realised how we have destroyed distance," said Mrs. Carnarvon.
"Yes, sir, it wor," said a bluff cable-man who chanced to overhear the remark, "an' if you wor in the tanks, you'd 'ave blessed Capt'n Halpin for wot he done. W'y, sir, that coat o' whitewash made a difference o' no less than eight degrees in the cable-tanks the moment it was putt on. Before that we was nigh stooed alive. Arter that we've on'y bin baked."
"Why, bless you, boys," said a cable-man near them, "cables is used to that now, like eels to bein' skinned; and so are we, for that matter. We think nothin' of it." Clearly the cable-man was right, for, while the picking-up apparatus was being got ready, the cable was cut in no fewer than three places, in order to test the coils that lay in the tanks.
"Indeed?" said Robin, but before he could say more the bluff cable-man had returned to his bakery. "Just look here," he continued, turning again to Letta; "the great ships around us seem like little ones, by contrast, and the little ones like boats, don't they?" "Yes, and the boats like toys," said Letta, "and the people in them like dolls."
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