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When a passerby hears the clock-maker berating his bookkeeper for making an error, he thinks he hears sounds of a struggle and fetches a policeman. The policeman can feel no pulse on the bookkeeper and is ready to arrest the clock-maker for murder when the clock-maker asks him to wait just ten seconds to prove his innocence. In ten seconds, the hour strikes, and the bookkeeper sits up. The policeman realizes that the clock-maker has manufactured his own bookkeeper.