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A knot of friends, invited to a feast, / At table sat -- a loitering guest, / Who came long after all the rest, / Sought for his tardiness to make excuse: / And, by his comrades for a reason pressed, / Drew out his Watch, and, holding it on high, / Replied -- "Tis you are out of time, not I. / 'Tis two precisely -- wherefore this abuse?"
"Absurd! " they answered. "Friend, your Watch is slow.