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268 "How perfectly isochronous!" the Professor exclaimed with enthusiasm. He had his watch in his hand, and was carefully counting Bruno’s oscillations. "He measures time quite as accurately as a pendulum!"

"Yet even pendulums," the good-natured young soldier observed, as he carefully released his hand from Bruno’s grasp, "are not a joy for ever! Come, that’s enough for one bout, little man! Next time we meet, you shall have