"I _know_ it," he said, in an almost agonized tone of voice, "I _know_
I gave you that miserable permission, but I never imagined that you
would get up in the middle of the night."
To this I cautiously made no reply, but continued to listen for the
heavenly one-o'clock call, and it never failed.
After completing my self-setting sawmill I dammed one of the streams in
the meadow and put the mill in operation. This invention was speedily
followed by a lot of others,--water-wheels, curious doorlocks and
latches, thermometers, hygrometers, pyrometers, clocks, a barometer, an
automatic contrivance for feeding the horses at any required hour, a
lamp-lighter and fire-lighter, an early-or-late-rising machine, and so
forth.
After the sawmill was proved and discharged from my mind, I happened
to think it would be a fine thing to make a timekeeper which would
tell the day of the week and the day of the month, as well as strike
like a common clock and point out the hours; also to have an
attachment whereby it could be connected with a bedstead to set me on
my feet at any hour in the morning; also to start fires, light lamps,
etc.
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