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distinguished character from another point of view - I think I may safely and boldly assert that he didn't depend upon a Waterbury watch.- A man who talked as much as he did, emphasizing all he said with vigorous and expressive gestures never could have found time to wind up a Waterbury, unless he knew enough to run it along the edge of a bureau drawer night and morning and whenever he had a little spare leisure (for I have been so long  in the habit of flattering myself that I am the man who invented this time and labor saving device that I begin to believe it myself.) I know great minds often run in the same channels, not when a great improbability of a coincidence like this - besides, in nine days Rogers and Peet didn't give a  Waterbury  with every twelve dollars worth of overcoats.- I feel it is quite needless to multiply evidence on their point and that you are already convinced. 

I have, in the prolonged absence of Cantine's Encyclopedia, been obliged to rely largely for the information I am giving you, upon my inner consciousness; my invention - upon inductive methods, correspondences and intentions. One advantage of this method is that you cant upset such a position by books, by assignments and mere facts, and there you are, and there they are obliged to leave you.

Now there is another view of his time as for instance what kind of a time