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that type who had coordination between mind and finger muscle and he didn't realize that everyone didn't have that.

Because he was so good at this precise work, he got put over on this screw threading. Before two days were over, to his surprise, his production was greater and more accurate than the most high-skilled men who had been working there for years. They kept him on that. It was the hardest job to find anyone to fill. Very few people can do it. It's the most difficult, precise job that has to be done.

He thought about it and finally figured out what it was that gave him this skill. He said, “You Know, I must have better and different eyesight from other people. I can see into those tubes. The other men can't see. You know that before I was seventeen I could outshoot every man in Massachusetts. They wouldn't let me enter the rifle tournaments because I was too young, but now I can. I don't know whether you know it, but I'm the number one man in Massachusetts and Connecticut. It's no trouble for me to hit the bull's eye. I don't know how you miss it. I just look at it, lift my gun and shoot at it.” In other words, he has perfect eyesight with no waving in it, and depth perception.





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