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The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch, by
Talbot Baines Reed This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org
Title: The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
Author: Talbot Baines Reed
Release Date: April 11, 2007 [EBook #21035]
Language: English
Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1
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The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
CHAPTER ONE.
MY INFANCY AND EDUCATION--HOW I WAS SOLD AND WHO BOUGHT ME.
"Then you can guarantee it to be a good one to go?"
"You couldn't have a better, sir."
"And it will stand a little roughish wear, you think?"
"I'm sure of it, sir; it's an uncommon strong watch."
"Then I'll take it."
These few sentences determined my destiny, and from that moment my career may be said to have begun.
I am old, and run down, and good for nothing now; but many a time do I find my thoughts wandering back to this far-off day; and remembering all that has befallen me since that eventful moment, I humbly hope my life has not been one to disgrace the good character with which I went out into the world.
I was young at the time, very young--scarcely a month old. Watches however, as every one knows, are a good deal more precocious in their infancy than hu
The Adventures of a Three-Guinea Watch
by Talbot Baines Reed