Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
Mark Twain
Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
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Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
Mark Twain · English
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MY WATCH AN INSTRUCTIVE LITTLE TALE—[Written about 1870.] My beautiful new watch had run eighteen months without losing or gaining, and without breaking any part of its machinery or stopping. I had come to believe it infallible in its judgments about the time of day, and to consider its constitution and its anatomy imperishable. But at last, one night, I let it run down. I grieved about it as if it were a recognized messenger and forerunner of calamity. But by and by I che
Sketches New and Old, Part 1.
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