Both the boys thought it was, and said they were glad that they were not born in a country where such ideas of honor prevailed. "They never came into my possession," Bruce cried. "There is some mistake----" The latter seems a plausible theory, and perhaps a correct one; but there are two facts in connection with the operation of reaction water-wheels which seem to controvert the latter and favour the first theory, namely, that reaction wheels in actual practice seldom utilise more than forty per cent. of useful effect from the water, and that their speed may exceed the initial velocity of the water. With this the subject is left as one for argument or investigation on the part of the reader.
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