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The Man With The Broken Ear

CHAPTER III
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It will still have thirteen days to go, after the time when it starts again.
"All living beings, according to the opinion of Professor Meiser, are watches, or organisms which move, breathe, nourish themselves, and reproduce themselves as long as their organs are intact and properly oiled.

The oil of the watch is represented in the animal by an enormous quantity of water.

In man, for example, water provides about four-fifths of the whole weight.

Given--a colonel weighing a hundred and fifty pounds, there are thirty pounds of colonel and a hundred and twenty pounds, or about sixty quarts, of water.

This is a fact proven by numerous experiments.


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