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The destined master of Beaubocage and Cotenoir was entirely without ready money. He had his watch. He put his hand upon that clumsy timekeeper as he talked to madame. "Je te porterai chez ma tante, mon gars," he said to himself. But he doubted whether the high priests of the pious mountain the Dordona of Pauperism would advance much upon this antique specimen of the watchmaker's art.
It is easy to understand how it became desirable to recognise more convenient divisions of the year than the four quarters marked by the solstices and the equinoxes. Various astronomical events were studied, and their regular recurrence ascertained, and they were used for this purpose. But the most obvious natural timekeeper to make use of, besides the sun, was the moon.
To this admirable quality of rising at four and retiring to rest at nine at all seasons, this great man owed his ability to accomplish mighty labours during his long and illustrious life. He was punctual in everything and made everyone about him punctual. So careful a man delighted in always having about him a good timekeeper.
What if he could not find Gordon at all? But he would he had to! "I'll be back here" he checked his watch, no longer an accurate timekeeper, for Hawaikan days held an hour more than the Terran twenty-four, but the settlers kept the off-world measurement to check on work periods "in, say, two hours. You should know by then about the gate, and I'll have some idea of the situation along the shore.
He had his timekeeper and log-book locked up with him, which were totally forgotten by these miscreants. Never seaman prayed more fervently for fair weather than Walsingham now did for a storm. Soon it blew a storm. He heard one of the sailors say 'A stiff gale, Jack! and another 'An ugly night! Presently, great noise on deck, and the pumps at work.
Therefore, about 1713 England offered a prize of £20,000 to any one who should invent a timekeeper sufficiently accurate to enable navigators to ascertain from it longitude at sea." The Scotchman paused to take from his table a box of tiny brass screws from which he selected one that was to his liking.
"It's a murder!" and he would have rushed in if Ford and the timekeeper had not held him back. The object lesson was sufficiently shocking, but its sequel was still more revolting.
"I did know of one case of a husband starting off at random to find his runaway wife," observed Breffny. "As there's yet an hour to midnight, we have time for one of your stories." "I can tell this in five minutes. All I know of the story is the beginning. No one ever heard of the end. It was like this: "When I lived in Glasgow, I knew a young fellow there who was timekeeper in a shipyard.
The thermometer from 66 to 69 degrees at noon in the shade. I could make no lunar observations for the longitude, but by the help of the timekeeper I have computed the situation of the town of Santa Cruz to be 28 degrees 28 minutes north latitude and 16 degrees 18 minutes west longitude.
"My good man, I shall most certainly do nothing of the kind. You heard what I said perfectly well. You have got a clock in your shop, I see; an admirable timekeeper I have no doubt. Well, I give you a minute by your own clock." The man looked about him in perplexed indecision, and Dyson felt that it was time to be bold. "Look here, Travers, the time is nearly up. You have heard of Q., I think.
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