 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1867 - 534 pages
...then was ; he looked at his watch, and told me.3i As he did that with so much good nature, I bogged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though...opened the watch and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | Horace A. Cleveland - Literature - 1869 - 610 pages
...it then was ; he looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though...opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | William Chambers, Robert Chambers - Anthologies - 1869 - 526 pages
...looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an...opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | William Meynell Whittemore - 1869 - 590 pages
...stranger looked at his watch and told him. " As he did that with so much good nature," says he, " I begged him to show me the inside of his watch, and, though...entire stranger, he immediately opened the watch and pat it into my hands." Having examined it for a short time, young Ferguson said that he did not thoroughly... | |
 | James Ferguson, Ebenezer Henderson - Astronomers - 1870 - 550 pages
...then was ; he looked at his watch, and told me.31 As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though...opened the watch and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | Chambers W. and R., ltd - 1871 - 276 pages
...looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an...opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | William Chambers - Biography - 1873 - 326 pages
...looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his watch ; and though he was an...opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round... | |
 | Biography - 1877 - 814 pages
...it then was? He looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and, though he was an entire stranger, he immediately opened it, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box, with part of the chain round it ; and asked him... | |
 | James Frederick Skinner Gordon - Banffshire (Scotland) - 1880 - 488 pages
...looked at his Watch, and told me. As he did that with so much good-nature, I begged of him to shew me the inside of his Watch : and though he was an...opened the Watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the Spring-box with part of the Chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the Box turn round... | |
 | George Lillie Craik - 1881 - 648 pages
...it then was. He looked at his watch and told me. As he did that with so much good nature, I begged of him to show me the inside of his watch ; and though...opened the watch, and put it into my hands. I saw the spring-box, with part of the chain round it, and asked him what it was that made the box turn round.... | |
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But happening one day to see a gentleman ride by my father's house, which was close by a public road, I asked him what o'clock it then was : he looked at his watch, and told me. As he did that with so much... 
