de time?"

"But don't you regard it as a talent?"

"A dalent? No! It is chenius. I vill dell you what is de difference,
in drade, between dalent and chenius. Ven one goes into a man's shtore
and manaches to seel him vat he vonts, dat is dalent; but ven annoder
man goes into dat man's shtore and sells him vot he don't vont, dat is
chenius; and dat is de chenius vot my race has got."

CHAPTER XXI

ENAMORED OF ACCURACY

"Antonio Stradivari has an eye
That winces at false work and loves the true."

Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty.--C. SIMMONS.

Genius is the infinite art of taking pains.--CARLYLE.

I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly; if it be
wrong, leave it undone.--GILPIN.

If I were a cobbler, it would be my pride
The best of all cobblers to be;
If I were a tinker, no tinker beside
Should mend an old kettle like me.
OLD SONG.

If a man can write a better book, preach a better sermon, or make a
better mouse-trap than his neighbor, though he build his house in the
woods, the world will make a beaten path to his door.--EMERSON.

"Sir, it is a watch which I have made and regulated myself," said
George Graham of London to a customer who asked how far he could depend
upon its keeping correct time; "take it with you wherever you please.
If after seven years you come back to see me, and can tell me there has
been a difference of five minutes, I will return you your money."
Seven years later the gentleman returned from India. "Sir," said he,
"I bring you back your watch."

"I remember our conditions," said Graham. "Let me see the watch.
Well, what do you complain of?" "Why," said the man, "I have had it
seven years, and there is a difference of more than five minutes."

"Indeed! In that case I return you your money." "I would not part
with my watch," said the man, "for ten times the sum I paid for it."
"And I would not break my word for any consideration," replied Graham;
so he paid the money and took the watch, which he used as a regulator.

He learned his trade of Tampion, the most exquisite mechanic in London,
if not in the world, whose name on a timepiece was considered proof
positive of its excellence. When a person once asked him to repair a
watch upon which his name was fraudulently engraved, Tampion smashed it
with a hammer, and handed the astonished customer one of his own
master-pieces, saying, "Sir, here is a watch of my mak