"That's standard time," Ross reminded him; "don't forget that we're not right on the line of standard time here, Anton. That's New Orleans time you've got, not sun time."
"Is thar more'n one kind of time?" the darky asked. "Ain't time, jest time, all over?"
"I should say not!" declared both boys at once, "it's never the same true time at any two places in the world."
"That is," corrected Ross, "unless they happen to be due north and south."
"Yo' makin' a joke of me, Mistah Anton," declared Dan'l.
"Not a bit of it," replied Anton. "I'll show you just why. The sun rises in the east, doesn't it?"
"Sho'."
"So, if you walked a long way east, you'd see the sun quicker, wouldn't you?"
"Ah s'pose Ah would," the darky responded hesitatingly.
"And your watch would show that the sun rose earlier."