ACCURACY AT ALL COSTS. The race was a neck-and neck one. The spectators stood with bated breath. No sound was to be herd but the stampeding of the two horses' hoofs and the ticking of the timekeeper's double-patent-extra-special-fractodecimo-never-stop stop ' watch. 1 "Dead heat !" roared the spectators. A great roar rent the air. The timekeeper stepped forward and held up his hand. "No, gentlemen !" he cried. "Betcher Boots was the winner ! I timed him by this fracto decimo stopwatch ! There are sixty seconds in a minute, sixty doo-dars in a second, and sixty wiff-wafls in a doo-dar—-and Betchjr Boots won by a quarter of a wifl-wafl !"
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2904, 31 January 1911, Page 7
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105Page 7 Advertisements Column 2 Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 2904, 31 January 1911, Page 7
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