Perner scowled and scratched his head. "I don't think so myself," he admitted, "but I've used up everything else on the paper. I've said 'splendid,' 'magnificent,' 'grand,' 'glorious,' and all those. There isn't anything left that I can think of. Get my Thesaurus, Stony, off the desk in the next room, and turn to 'beauty.' That'll give us a starting-point." Livingstone obeyed, and was presently running his finger down the page. "'Gorgeous' wouldn't quite do, would it?" he asked doubtfully. "N-no, hardly. Look along a little farther. What comes after that?" "Then--let's see--there's 'good-looking,' 'well-made,' 'proper,' 'shapely,' and 'symmetrical.' I don't think much of any of those, do you?" "Well, no," reflected Van Dorn; "however true they might be of the proprietors, we'd hardly want to say that our watch was 'good-looking' and 'proper.'" "How about 'dazzling,' 'showy,' 'majestic,' 'sumptuous'?" "Oh, pshaw, Stony, give me the book!" said Perner, impatiently. "Here, Barry, you look. These artists don't know any more about a dictionary than we do about a paint-shop." Barrifield took the book and examined it a moment in silence. "How would 'elegant' do, and 'superb'?" he asked. "Good, but we've used them already on the paper." "'Delicate,' 'dainty,' 'refined'--" Livingstone looked down at the fat-bellied, moon-faced time-piece and laughed. Van Dorn took it more seriously. "Too tappy," he said. "We want to land on the solar plexus every time. Why not call it 'world-beating,' or--" "Now you're talking sense!" interrupted Barrifield. "That's better than a dictionary. 'The great, world-beating "Whole Family" watch! Stem-winding and -setting! Full-jeweled! Diamond balance! Eighteen--'" "Hold on, Barry; I can't get it down." Perner was scribbling rapidly. "And what does 'diamond balance' mean?" "Never mind what it means. It sounds rich, and that's what we want." "Don't you think we ought to have in something about the escapement?" asked Livingstone. "All watches have escapements, don't they?" "Why, yes," nodded Van Dorn,--"cylinder escapement--duplex action--" Perner interrupted: "Oh, nonsense, Van! It's the camera that has duplex action." "'Tisn't, either--it's the watch!" "Oh, well, let's give it to the camera, anyway," compromised Barrifield. "We've got enough for the watch. How does it read now, Perny?" Perner added a few more lines to what he had already written, then, leaning back in his chair, read slowly and with emphasis: "OUR MAGNIFICENT PREMIUM OFFERS "In addition to giving you our superb paper at the unheard-of price of ONE DOLLAR A YEAR FOR FIFTY-TWO ISSUES, we make to the _entire world_ the following supreme premium offers: "I think," Perner paused to comment, "that that goes a few degrees better than Frisby. Here's what he says." He picked up a copy of a paper that gave evidence of having had much careful reading and even commentary study.