"The World and the University 



building, and a carpenter to make the necessary 

 shelving and assist you everyway possible!" 



So I quickly had a shelf made large enough 

 for all of them, went out on the hill and picked 

 up some glacial boulders of the right size for 

 weights, and in fifteen or twenty minutes the 

 clocks were running. They seemed to attract 

 more attention than anything else in the hall. 

 I got lots of praise from the crowd and the news- 

 paper-reporters. The local press reports were 

 copied into the Eastern papers. It was con- 

 sidered wonderful that a boy on a farm had 

 been able to invent and make such things, and 

 almost every spectator foretold good fortune. 

 But I had been so lectured by my father above 

 all things to avoid praise that I was afraid to 

 read those kind newspaper notices, and never 

 clipped out or preserved any of them, just 

 glanced at them and turned away my eyes 

 from beholding vanity. They gave me a prize 

 of ten or fifteen dollars and a diploma for 

 wonderful things not down in the list of 

 exhibits. 



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