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The Sleeper Awakes

CHAPTER IV
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Six dozen, Sire.

Of course things, even these little things, have altered.

You lived in the days of the decimal system, the Arab system--tens, and little hundreds and thousands.

We have eleven numerals now.

We have single figures for both ten and eleven, two figures for a dozen, and a dozen dozen makes a gross, a great hundred, you know, a dozen gross a dozand, and a dozand dozand a myriad.


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