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Gutta-Percha Willie

CHAPTER III
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"Why do you make a question of it ?" "Because look what great big huge things he does! How could those tremendous hammers set such a little thing as that right?
They would knock it all to pieces.

Don't you think you had better take it to the watchmaker ?" "If I did, Willie, do you know what you would say the moment you saw him at work ?" "No, papa.

What should I say ?" "You would say, 'Don't you think, papa, you had better take it back to the smith ?" "But why should I say that ?" "Because, when you saw his tools beside this lock, you would think the tools so small and the lock so huge, that nothing could be done between them.

Yet I daresay the watchmaker could set the lock all right if he chose to try.

Don't you think so, Mr Willet ?" "Not a doubt of it," answered the smith.
"Had we better go to him then ?" "Well," answered the smith, smiling, "I think perhaps he would ask you why you hadn't come to me.


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