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On Monday morning Philip rose early. He had a hard week before him, for besides performing his usual duties-and their name was legion at this busy season of the year-he hoped to devote an afternoon to an exhaustive trial of the Meldrum Automatic Electro-Magnetic (described by the ribald Timothy as the Ought-to-Scrap-It, Don't You-Forget-It) Brake.