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Why, I could clean up, polish, and pipe-clay twice as fast as some of 'em." "But what brings you here, Jerry?" "Ah! that's it, S'Dick Smithson!" cried the man, with a smile of triumph. "It's all right; I'm taken in exchange." "What!" "They've swopped me, somehow. I don't know; but I don't belong to the Three-tenth no longer. I'm a Two-fifth, and, what's more, I'm Lieutenant Lacey's servant.
The average time, for instance, taken to reply to a telephone call by a New York operator, is now three and two-fifth seconds; and even this tiny atom of time is being strenuously worn down. As a witty Frenchman has said, one of our most lively regrets is that while we are at the telephone we cannot do business with our feet.
It was my estimation after my first trip here that time in this world passed at a rate about two and two-fifth times faster than it does in your world. That is as near as I ever came to it. We can calculate it more closely now, since we have only the interval of your journey down as an indeterminate quantity." "How near right did you hit it? When did you expect us?" asked the Doctor.
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