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Written in 1870 by
Mark Twain
(1835-1910)
This version originally published in
2005
by
Infomotions, Inc.
It was derived from the Internet Wiretap Edition of My Watch by Mark Twain From "Sketches New and Old", Copyright 1903, Samuel Clemens. It was placed in the Public Domain (June 1993, #16). (Written about 1870.)
This document is distributed under the GNU Public License.
? ? ? ? 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 cheered up, set the watch by guess, and commanded my bodings and superstitions to depart. Next day I stepped into the chief jeweler's to set it by the exact time, and the head of the establishment took it out of my hand and proceeded to set it for me. Then he said, "She is four minutes slow -- regulator wants pushing up." I tried to stop him -- tried to make him understand that the watch kept perfect time.
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