human
It is bound to happen. The Clerk of the Weather has only one assistant now, and it takes the two of them to do a Prog--Prog--don't interrupt me--a Prog--Prognostication!--phew, what a beautiful word!--Prognostication ten minutes now. Therefore it stands to reason, as the Sun Dial remarked, that nine could do it in much less time!
gpt
You will excuse me, halloed the Zankiwank down the next door dining-room chimney,
human
I beg to differ from you. That is to say on the contrary. For instance:--If it takes two people ten minutes to do a prog--you must fill in the rest yourself--prog--of course, as there are so many more to do the same thing, it must take them forty-five minutes.
gpt
What a brain, exclaimed the Jackarandajam, ecstatically;
human
More nonsense, observed Willie to Maude.
gpt
What does it all mean?