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Although he did not actually say in so many words that they had already wasted two fares, Christopher, well aware of his Scotch thrift, felt his manner implied it. They did not say much during the ride down town. McPhearson was a bit ruffled and annoyed, and Christopher crestfallen and mortified.
"To be sure," McPhearson continued, "people sometimes own clocks that aren't worth much pains. Still, it's only right to keep them cleaned and help them to do the best they can, even at that. All clocks can't be Tompions, or Grahams, or Quares, any more than we can all be Washingtons and Lincolns. It isn't their fault nor ours."
Hence the demand for watches has multiplied almost beyond belief and there are now a great many watch factories." "What are some of them?" "I'll mention a few as nearly in the order of their founding as I can," McPhearson answered: "The E. Howard Company of Boston, organized 1850. "American Waltham Watch Company, Waltham, Massachusetts, 1859. "Elgin National Watch Company, Elgin, Illinois, 1870.
"Apollo, drawn in his chariot by prancing horses, typifies Sunday; Monday we have Diana with her stag. Tuesday comes Mars, Wednesday Mercury, Thursday Jupiter, Friday we have the goddess Venus, and Saturday Saturn." "Some clock!" gasped Christopher. "Oh, that isn't half of it," protested McPhearson, "although it sounds amazing enough; there is yet more.
"It worked," McPhearson answered. "With such strict rules you may be sure there was none of the thing the Athenians termed 'babbling. Men guarded their words like jewels when each word meant the dripping away of his allotted time." "And did people continue to use this water clock?" "Yes, for quite a time, but after a while they began to find fault with it.
While others cried their products, he simply pasted in the back of each of his clocks the few modest facts he wished to announce and let his work go out to speak for itself." "Ask the man who owns one!" put in Christopher, quoting a well-known and modern advertisement. "Exactly!" agreed McPhearson. "Anybody that produces an A1 commodity hardly needs to bark about it.
Burton, bestowing on the comment only a smile, "we have planned to send you two to Europe this summer on a clock-seeing expedition." "Oh!" cried Christopher. "Oh, sir!" came in a bewildered whisper from the Scotchman. "You will first go to Scotland," explained Mr. Burton, "and there McPhearson is to visit his old home and the friends he wishes to hunt up. He is not to hurry about it, either.
"Back in the thirteenth century, you mean?" queried Christopher, not unwilling to display his knowledge. "Oh, they were just beginning to get them by that time," McPhearson objected instantly. "By the fourteenth century there were clocks that really began to be clocks. In 1326, for example, the Abbott of St.
Nonsensical as it was to suppose it, there seemed to be in the atmosphere a subtle air of suspense quite new and unusual. Besides that, there were flowers on his father's desk; and what was more surprising, apparently he was the only one to notice these innovations. Nevertheless he did not speak of them but pulled off his coat and stood for a moment hesitating before going to hunt up McPhearson.
McPhearson laughed at the ejaculation. "Cheer up, son! I shall not attach your bank account yet," said he. "You see, when I talk to you I can work at the same time, which puts quite a different phase on the matter; and when I cannot both work and talk, why I stop talking.
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