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W. C. Bennet warrants it as the best watch which they can produce. If it prove as good and as durable as he prophesies, J will find it a perfect time-keeper long after his father has done with Time. If I had not thought of his wearing it hereafter, I should have been content with a much inferior one. No. 39,620. September 20th. I went back to Rhyl last Friday in the steamer.
On the morning of the 15th, when the time-keeper placed us in 66 degrees 1 minute 15 seconds longitude, we were not yet in the meridian of Margareta island; though according to the reduced chart of the Atlantic ocean, we ought to have passed the very lofty western cape of this island, which is laid down in longitude 66 degrees 0 minutes.
By this time the gallery was half filled with an audience largely composed of High School boys and girls. A few outsiders were present. Mrs. Harlowe had come to see her daughter's team win the game, she said; for she knew that Grace's heart was set on victory. The referee, time-keeper and scorer chosen from the senior class took their places. The whistle blew and the teams lined up.
Get another man for your crew from Morgan. I'll obtain this fellow's name and his address, if he has any, from the time-keeper, in case he passes in his checks." The foreman started away. The group before the door disintegrated and presently disappeared. Pat glanced at the sun, lighted a cigar, and asked: "Do we start a night shift?" "Yes; whenever you can bring in the men."
Rising majestically, the time-keeper lifted up his voice and counted: "One two three four five six" and Harberth opened his eyes, sat up, "seven eight nine" and lay down again; and just as Dam was about to leap for joy and the audience to roar their approval instead of the fatal "OUT" the time-keeper called "Time".
On the 15th, by an observation of the moon's distance from the star aquila, our longitude was 171° 16' east, the latitude was 50° 45' south, and the variation of the compass 16° 20' east; longitude by the time-keeper 171° 32' east, and by account 172° 10' east.
This was a proof that the time-keeper must have altered its rate since we left Port Jackson; we had then determined it to be losing 4"-77. This change of its rate, since we left Port Jackson, I had some time suspected, and attributed it to the effects of the weather we had off, and near, Cape Horn.
In a short time the referee had the canoes with their noses at the line, and at an interval from each other satisfactory to him. "Thirty seconds to the start!" called the time-keeper. "Twenty seconds!" In the Gridley canoe each boy sat bent slightly forward, his paddle raised at the proper position. "Ten seconds!" called the starter. Then Bang! Away shot the canoes.
That ain't fair, you know." "But you didn't see it all," cried Rats, getting excited. "He hit me down first! And look here, I'll fight him again for nothing, and you can see fair play." They talked awhile; then Sunlight proposed to second the swag, while his mate supported the old man, and after some persuasion, Milky agreed, for the sake of the lark, to act as time-keeper and referee.
One day the great patriots, John Dickinson and Cæsar Rodney, riding past Christina together, stopped for dinner, and sent their watches in to be cleaned meantime. "'Minuit, said Rodney, 'you are a devil with a time-keeper! "'Nay, Minuit, said Dickinson, 'thou art the gentlest custodian of time in our parts. I would some one could regulate these States and times like thee.
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