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Karl Steinmetz lifted his pen from the paper before him and scratched his forehead with his forefinger.
"Now, I wonder," he said aloud, "how many bushels there are in a ton. Ach! how am I to find out? These English weights and measures, this English money, when there is a metrical system!"