ECHOES


An American and a Scotsman were walking one day near the foot of one of

the Scotch mountains. The Scotsman, wishing to impress the visitor,

produced a famous echo to be heard in that place. When the echo returned

clearly after nearly four minutes, the proud Scotsman, turning to the

Yankee exclaimed:



"There, mon, ye canna show anything like that in your country."



"Oh, I don't know," said the American, "I guess we can better that. Why

in my camp in the Rockies, when I go to bed I just lean out of my

window and call out, 'Time to get up: wake up!' and eight hours

afterward the echo comes back and wakes me."



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